'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

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

00:05questions raised quite rightly about the preparation for this series and

00:11ashes down under only comes around every four years over the last 50 odd

00:17years we've only won four times 70 71 78 79 86 87 and last time 2010 2011 so

00:29in 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 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