Sydney, Aug 26 - Hurt with Australia's Ashes loss, legendary spinner Shane Warne asked if the transition period in Australian team was really over.

'It hurts a bloody lot losing the Ashes. I really felt for Ricky Ponting and the Australian team after seeing Andrew Strauss lift the little urn at the Oval,' Warne wrote in his coulumn in the Daily Telegraph.

'The vultures are circling and looking for answers, but to me it's pointless and destructive to sling criticism about why we lost the Ashes. It is more constructive for those in charge to work out how to move forward. Many members of this team were playing in their first Ashes series, but there comes a time when the transition period is over. How long is that period?' he said.

Warne said that with the loss, he realised the pain of losing the Ashes in 2005 in England the first and the only time in his career.