LONDON – Former England captain Michael Vaughan has labelled plans to introduce a points system for the upcoming home series against Pakistan and Sri Lanka as “nonsense”. In international men’s cricket, Tests, one day internationals (ODIs) and Twenty20 matches have been regarded as separate entities.But in order to give bilateral series more “context”, the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) are holding talks with their Sri Lankan and Pakistani counterparts about a system where points will be awarded for Tests, ODIs and T20s, with an overall winner then announced. “It’s an over-complication that is not needed,” Vaughan told the BBC.The system has been used by England and Australia’s women in their version of the Ashes since 2013. However, women’s teams generally play far fewer international matches than their male counterparts and there had long been a feeling that an Ashes series should not be decided by a solitary Test.A further complication is the weighting of the points system. If, as expected, more points are given for winning a Test match than a white ball fixture, it may be that the overall winner is decided before the limited overs matches start.