Sydney: A pre-Ashes boot camp at which Australia’s top cricketers underwent commando training in a Queensland forest was “absolute garbage,” Test great Neil Harvey said on Friday.

“Can you imagine (Don) Bradman or (Keith) Miller, or (Ray) Lindwall, or any of those blokes going on one of those,” Harvey said, referring to some of his more noteable former Australian teammates. “They’d just laugh in your face and say ‘see you later’.”

“I think it’s a lot of absolute garbage. I suppose you’ve got to blame the coach (John Buchanan) for that. Maybe that’s all he can do, I don’t know.” (AP)