Rob Key

When we have the next statue out in Australia, there's a champion's trophy.

So you want to make sure that in between that and the ashes, there's nothing else that gets in the way.

There's no, oh, why don't we just nip off and play a white ball series there?

Because it might be broadcast revenue.

It might be those things.

So that's part of that, how you try and plan the stuff you're talking about, the MOU with Australia.

So you don't end up in a situation where you're playing substandard opposition.

Both ways, when they come to us and we go there, you're trying to provide the best possible

of what you can for that team to prepare because it's no good having a series like we had in Australia where you have a couple of two-day games and it actually does a disservice for everyone.

No one benefits from that.

Australian cricket doesn't benefit from losing lots and lots of money from having games of cricket that don't last long enough.

So there's lots of different things that goes into those subheadings, things like the selection side of stuff.

is we for a reason because we thought we were doing the right thing we've overvalued loyalty and overvalued having a settled team because it might be that the ashes or a big series is what the next one in a year or two's time but actually what that is is only 11 tests or 12 test matches

Two of them are in Bangladesh as well.

So we thought what we want to do is make sure we have a team that is settled out there, that we go out there and we're not giving debuts to opening batters, stuff like that.

But what that does, it then creates an environment where there's not enough consequence.

So they're the things we need to change.

We need to be more ruthless with our selection so that the players

the subconscious bar is raised for what we think is acceptable for performance.

So there are a lot of things that we had as a plan, but actually didn't work out.