Michael Vaughan - cricketer turned artist

The former England cricket captain Michael Vaughan painting what are said to be "colour abstract pieces that can be best described as a riotous and colourful mixture of Jackson Pollock meets Damien Hirst". Click onwards to see if you agree, or whether you think it's all just money for old rope. More details on the paintings can be found at castlegalleries.com Photograph: guardian.co.uk

Six! Jonathan Jones: "The bloodstain-effect spatter here recalls the paintings of William Burroughs, the beat writer. Like Vaughan, he used his celebrity to become an abstract painter - but instead of a bat, Burroughs used a shotgun." Photograph: guardian.co.uk

Day/Night Jonathan Jones: "Jackson Pollock, whose drip paintings seem to me to be Vaughan's ultimate inspiration, reached for the infinite by throwing paint at canvas and here that same leap is made by wood hitting paint-soaked leather." Photograph: guardian.co.uk

Yes, No, Maybe Jonathan Jones: "You can really see the shape of the cricket ball and feel its round heavyness in these bright imprints. This is the twenty-first century answer to traditional sporting scenes and would look good in a sporty bar." Photograph: guardian.co.uk

Power Play Jonathan Jones: "Interesting how varying the rate of delivery of balls - here, apparently, in a rapid storm of repeated thwacks - translates into a different emotional impact - the sense of force is vivid and as a sporting memento it is highly effective. Better than Hirst - but that's not saying much these days." Photograph: guardian.co.uk

No Boundaries Jonathan Jones: "The black on red creates a darker, wilder mood in this painting whose threads of black acrylic might even recall the buzzing flies in Damien Hirst's vitrine A Thousand Years, or a storm of crows in a Bosch picture. An alternative title might be Apocalypse at the Oval." Photograph: guardian.co.uk

The Blues Jonathan Jones: "Vaughan knows his modern art (at least, better than I know my cricket.) Here he apparently pays tribute to Yves Klein, whose gimmick was to get naked models to act as living paintbrushes to create abstractions in his patented Yves Klein Blue." Photograph: guardian.co.uk

Brownie Jonathan Jones: "Here, the world of cricket pays homage to yet another modernist giant. The darkness of this spatter recalls the late works of Mark Rothko, and the sense of gloom is just as forebodiing - rain stopping play or a defeat by Australia?" Photograph: guardian.co.uk

Colourful Grouping Jonathan Jones: "The cricket ball, so surprisingly dexterous as a maker of marks, here creates a kind of flower painting, the globs of colour resembling buds painted by Cy Twombly or Fantin Latour. A sensitive side?" Photograph: guardian.co.uk