'England should look ahead'

This winter was always going to be heavy enough on players with an Ashes series and a long World Cup, but money was put before the best interests of our team. If we had to play nine one-day matches in Australia we should have sent our A-team lads. Our major Ashes players should have gone home to rest and freshen up.

The selectors need to start planning for the next World Cup in Australia in four years’ time. They need to think of the conditions and the type of cricketer needed to do well out there and the age of the players when that tournament starts … identify some youngsters. Give them experience, time to play and make mistakes and learn from those errors so that by the next World Cup they are battle-hardened.