Strauss led England to a 3-0 Test win against Pakistan in 2006

Former England player Darren Gough backed Strauss for the Lord's Test, which starts on 17 May.

He told BBC Five Live: "Without a doubt Strauss, as he's done it before and knows what it's all about."

Vaughan broke his finger on Thursday, playing for Yorkshire in an attempt to get more matches under his belt.

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The 32-year-old is rated as doubtful for the first Test and could miss the second one, at his county ground Headingley, too as the injury typically takes a month to heal.

Strauss led England last summer when Vaughan and Andrew Flintoff were both injured.

He started with a traumatic 5-0 whitewash against Sri Lanka in the one-day series, but won the Test series against Pakistan 3-0.

Unfortunately he [Flintoff] got done for going out and having a drink but that should not stop him being captain of England but I think they will go for Andrew Strauss Darren Gough

However a fit-again Flintoff was preferred to Strauss to lead England during the Ashes series in Australia, where England were trounced 5-0 in the Tests but bounced back to win the one-day CB Series.

But Flintoff was publicly reprimanded and stripped of the vice captaincy during the World Cup in the Caribbean after a drunken episode involving a pedalo.

Gough said: "Unfortunately he [Flintoff] got done for going out and having a drink but that should not stop him being captain of England.

"But I think they will go for Andrew Strauss."

Paul Collingwood is the third name in the frame but he has very little captaincy experience although he would relish the chance.

He said: "To get mentioned with the captaincy is obviously a great feeling. I've done a few games for Durham a couple of seasons ago.

"I enjoy the challenges of captaincy but, as I've said, hopefully this will be in the future and hopefully Michael Vaughan will be fit."

In an attempt to get fit, Vaughan could use a hyperbaric oxygen chamber to speed up the healing process.

Both Simon Jones and Matthew Hoggard have used the chamber before with varying degrees of success.

Jones failed to recover from an ankle injury which ruled him out of the fifth and final Ashes Test at The Oval in 2005.

But Hoggard did recover from a hand injury in time to face Pakistan at Lord's last summer and took five wickets in the match.

Yorkshire physiotherapist Scott McAllister said: "It is just one of the options being considered, but it may or may not be beneficial in Michael's case.

"We're icing the finger to keep swelling to a minimum and concentrating on making sure it is immobile at all times.