Rob Key

Yeah, we did.

Richard Gord in particular spoke to a lot of people.

Who did he speak to?

It was led by him, myself.

Well, I think you'd have to ask him and who he spoke to.

I think he said today that we spoke to a number of people outside of the England set-up.

I'm always speaking to people outside of the England set-up, so a lot of my thing is going out there and speaking to people to find out, people I trust their opinion, because when there's a hell of a lot of noise, it's not easy to find out

what the signal is between that noise.

So there's lots of different people that were spoken to throughout that review, as I've done throughout this role, really.

I've always tried to take advice, always said to people, come on, then tell me, what is it we're not doing well?

I think that what you want is actually to make sure that your players are ready and they're hardened to what they're coming for.

So the perfect preparation, you go out there and if we go there next time, we'll have a side, you'd hope.

Because as Alistair said, I think a lot of these players, the bowling attackers play, what, five, six test matches?

Josh Tong had played before he started the Ashes.

They're not hardened to what's coming.

So you'd think that you'd end up with a load of players that would go out there and be ready for what Ashes cricket is.

We're all responsible for that, really.

The coach, captain, myself and the coaching captain are the ones that have to start thinking about how do we get players ready to go out and what's coming for them?

And it isn't the case that, you know, we were in New Zealand.

We took the...