How much of that was down to Micky Stewart?
He was outstanding. Throughout my early career Micky was a wonderful manager. He encouraged me, he backed me and I’ll always be grateful to him for that. You didn’t get the same kind of support from his successors? I’m sitting here in Perth and I’m a million miles away from the days when I played the game but in my opinion those two [Ray Illingworth and Keith Fletcher] were the most appalling man managers, the most appalling coaches and the most appalling people that I’ve met. My career went downhill very rapidly because they didn’t want to understand me and were just too quick to knock and criticise. It wasn’t just me, though. It was such a shame during that period because I played with about 74 players for England in about five years – nobody knew what the hell was going on. In my opinion they set English cricket back 10 years. When did things come to a head? I was in Pretoria before the start of the 1995-96 tour and Ray Illingworth and John Edrich [England’s batting coach at the tim
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