Brydon Carse was dropped from England squad for second Test against Pakistan.
The Cricket Regulator is currently looking into Carse's arrest during a night out in Derby with his Durham colleagues. He has been left out of the England team for Thursday's second Test match against Pakistan at Lord's.
Carse was with Durham teammates Ben Stokes and Matthew Potts, all of whom hold England central contracts, at the time of his arrest.
“Someone is going to have to get a punishment that sends a shiver down the whole England cricket team and right down through the programme so that everyone knows that if you misbehave or bring any kind of bad reputation onto this team, you know what’s going to come. It’s the only punishment that will really hurt players,” Vaughan told the BBC.
Off-field disputes are nothing new for England. Additionally, the trend is well-known since English players frequently get into problems off the field, which frequently affects how well they perform on the field.
After a series of similar incidents over the past year, Vaughan acknowledged that the incident is "an awful look for the England team once again", but he also voiced sympathy for Carse if he ends up taking the brunt of a crackdown.
“I hope Carse is getting good support around him. He is a character who can be a little bit loose, and if you give him a bit of rope, he’ll take a huge amount of it. He needs people around him who are giving him better advice. I would feel for Carse if he is the one who takes the rap for what has happened over the past nine months, but somewhere, somehow, something has to be done to set a precedent that they won’t stand for that behaviour anymore,” said Vaughan.
Eight contractual players have been involved in late-night incidents in the last year. Ben Duckett was caught on camera intoxicated in Noosa, Harry Brook was punched outside a nightclub in Wellington, and Stokes and Gus Atkinson witnessed an attack on a security guard in London.