Oz favourite to win Ashes if Buchanan coaches England: Warne

“I think that’s a great move because that means we’ve got more of a chance. Hopefully,Buck (Buchanan) will be doing his stuff and he’ll be working and doing all his things and hopefully over complicating things,” he said.

“I reckon it gives our chances a big boost and makes our blokes more hungry. Hopefully,he gets all of them in a boot camp and Freddy (Andrew) Flintoff and (Kevin) Pietersen hurt their knees,that would be great,” he was quoted as saying by “The Age”.

Warne’s criticism came close on the heals of fellow leg-spinner Stuart MacGill’s condemnation of Buchanan’s appointment.

MacGill was far more vocal in his criticism,saying Buchanan’s coaching had cost Australia the 2005 Ashes in England.

“That was the first time he was in a situation where we weren’t playing as well as we would have liked and we were getting outplayed,” MacGill said.

Warne believes Australia deserve to start as favourites for the Ashes,which starts in Cardiff on July 8,and termed Ricky Ponting-led side’s early exit from the Twenty20 World Cup as a “blessing in disguise”.

“I wish we were still in the Twenty20 … but now you have to look at the positive out of it and the positive is our guys can prepare for the Ashes for the next couple of weeks,” he said.

He attributes Australia’s dismal record in the Twenty20 format of the game to lack of exposure due to their packed international schedule.

“Ideally,we’d like the international players to play more Twenty20 in our domestic Big Bash competition,” said Warne,who finished with 708 wickets in 145 Tests.

“I don’t think we actually understand the tactics of Twenty20 enough either. We didn’t play a spinner in the first Twenty20 game (against the West Indies),” he said.

“You look at all the people doing well in Twenty20 cricket,spinners are doing really well.”