“All comments by Warne and MacGill are right and you’d find that 99 per cent of the group from that era would agree. The management team didn’t plan right, we had a not-very-good, quick preparation in Brisbane and then we landed and away we went,” Martyn said.
Martyn, who joined Shane Warne and Stuart MacGill in slamming Buchanan, said Australia’s poor preparation was one of “a million behind-the-scenes reasons” for the series defeat.
“We got slack, everything clicked for them, they haven’t played that well since then and they won’t ever again. They built themselves up so much for the Ashes when the Ashes for us had dropped off because we’d won it so many times,” he said.
“For us it was conquering all things, World Cups, Champions Trophy, the subcontinent.
The Ashes was just another series but for England it was their pinnacle and we just went underprepared.”