'A disaster' - Gooch blasts England's Ashes preparation - video Dailymotion

Graham Gooch says using the one-day series in New Zealand as Ashes preparation was a terrible idea

Transcript

00:00I think it's been a disaster from the start because there was huge questions

00:06raised, quite rightly, about the preparation for this series and Ashes

00:12Down Under only comes around every four years. Over the last 50 odd years we've

00:18only won four times, 70-71, 78-79, 86-87 and last time 2010-2011.

00:28So in terms of English and Australian cricket it's the holy grail of our

00:35cricket. I think you've got to go back to who agreed the itinerary for this test

00:44series, who signed off on that if that's the right word to use, i.e. how many

00:50preparation games we're going to have. The one-day series in New Zealand just

00:56beforehand is you know terrible planning in my book because Ashes is the most

01:01important thing.