Michael Vaughan on investigation into old tweets from England players: The witch hunt has to stop

Michael Vaughan said that "it's amazing" how the tweets seem offensive now while they caused no problem when they were originally made.

Former England captain Michael Vaughan said on Thursday that the probe into cricketers' old tweets is a "witch hunt" that must stop. No one at the time of Morgan’s ,Buttler’s & Anderson’s tweets seemed offended at the time they tweeted but it’s amazing how they now seem offensive a few years later !!!!!! Utterly ridiculous The witch hunt has started but has to stop #OnOn The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) is investigating the country’s white-ball captain Eoin Morgan and wicketkeeper-batsman Jos Buttler after their tweets mocking Indians surfaced on social media on Wednesday. England's all-time highest Test wicket-taker James Anderson has also been alleged to have posted a homophobic tweet in 2010. "No one at the time of Morgan's, Buttler's & Anderson's tweets seemed offended at the time they tweeted but it's amazing how they now seem offensive a few years later !!!!!! Utterly ridiculous... The witch hunt has started but has to stop," Vaughan tweeted.