Former Australian middle-order batsman Damien Martyn has blamed ex-coach John Buchanan for the team's failure to retain the 2005 Ashes series. He also blamed the team management for considering it as just another series and not planning it right up to the mark.

With this Martyn has joined the pool of Shane Warne and Stuart McGill in slamming their ex-coach.

Martyn said "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,"

"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 told the 'WisdenCricketer' in an interview.

"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."