Michael Vaughan has hit out against the busy scheduling in England's one-day series against West Indies. After playing the first game last Sunday, England now face six matches in 12 days, starting with a double-header in Trinidad this weekend.

The fixtures were designed to maximise the revenue for the West Indies board by guaranteeing full houses, prompting Vaughan to suggest that money was more important than the good of the players. "It isn't ideal, but as players we realise the position the boards are in to try and sell out grounds and make their money," Vaughan said. "I guess we are used in a way, but we accept that as players. We have to get on with it, we don't have another option of doing anything but going out and playing. It's tough and it's hard but we can only go out and do what's put in front of us and that's six games in 12 days."

Vaughan has always made it clear he wanted his players to be as fit as possible, and he stressed that it's these sort of situations that it's needed the most. "It will be tough on the mind, tough on the body and I guess that's why we're doing all our fitness work to allow our bodies to withstand this kind of mount-up of games," he said. "As players we'd have loved to have played a game yesterday with a couple of days break and then play again on Sunday, but the way it's scheduled is to allow the grounds to be full which is why we have the back-to-back games over the weekend."