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  • Gravesend_Addick
    Gravesend_Addick Posts: 7,299
    Brendon McCullum now tipped to be new England test coach.

    Could see him as limited overs coach, but surprised to see him linked to the Test Role 
  • Johnnysummers5
    Johnnysummers5 Posts: 8,469
    Gravesend_Addick said:
    Brendon McCullum now tipped to be new England test coach.

    Could see him as limited overs coach, but surprised to see him linked to the Test Role 
    He played 100 test  matches so he knows a bit about test cricket.
    I think he would  be a  good choice.
  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 23,319
    I like the thought of Rob Key booting up the Test cricket batting strikerates versus average chart and immediately seizing upon the lonely dot that is McCullum as the man to lead England
  • Chizz
    Chizz Posts: 28,341
    McCullum as coach and Stokes as Captain? I think that might cause a drop in Day Five pre-sales. 
  • hermann
    hermann Posts: 481
    Gravesend_Addick said:
    Brendon McCullum now tipped to be new England test coach.

    Could see him as limited overs coach, but surprised to see him linked to the Test Role 
    Another one we've missed out on. Pull your finger out TS 
  • Gravesend_Addick
    Gravesend_Addick Posts: 7,299
    Gravesend_Addick said:
    Brendon McCullum now tipped to be new England test coach.

    Could see him as limited overs coach, but surprised to see him linked to the Test Role 
    Set to be announced in next 48 hours.  A bold, exciting, but slightly left field choice.

    Interesting to see how it works out
  • Blackheathen
    Blackheathen Posts: 6,656
    Leuth said:
    I like the thought of Rob Key booting up the Test cricket batting strikerates versus average chart and immediately seizing upon the lonely dot that is McCullum as the man to lead England
    I’m sure there is a good point lurking in there somewhere Leuth
  • DubaiCAFC
    DubaiCAFC Posts: 2,461
    Great appointment - need positive forward thinking people around the set up.. All three of the appointments have been extremely positive so far.
  • cantersaddick
    cantersaddick Posts: 16,934
    edited May 2022
    When I first heard him linked I assumed it was for the white ball stuff. Very surprised when they said tests. It's an interesting one. Graham Ford or Gary Kirsten are the safe options. Both experienced coaches and know the test match game but they are more of the same. McCullum is something different but I have come round to the idea. He was a big part of NZ developing into a top side in all formats and was a big personality behind the way they play and that "brand of cricket" 🤮 so if he can impart some of that on us and get us playing positive attacking cricket then that would be great and I think it's exactly how stokes would want to play cricket.
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 52,013

    The England and Wales Cricket Board announced today that it has appointed Brendon McCullum as England Men's Test Head Coach.

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  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,801
    At least Ollie Robinson is consistent although he seems to be able to find any number of reasons not to be able to bowl (one over in total today)


  • cantersaddick
    cantersaddick Posts: 16,934
    Have a feeling the BMac Appoint might mean we see Liam Livingstone in the test side at some point. Not based on anything but I know BMac is a fan and he plays that type of cricket that he likes.
  • Pelling1993
    Pelling1993 Posts: 6,674
    Addick Addict said:
    At least Ollie Robinson is consistent although he seems to be able to find any number of reasons not to be able to bowl (one over in total today)


    As a Charlton & Sussex fan I feel I must've wronged someone in a previous life.... Delray Rawlins at 5 and Lenham at 7! Pujara is going to need to get 300 rather than 200 this week
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,855
    Anderson bowls Root, I bet he enjoyed that one! Revenge for not being picked for the Windies tour  :)
  • Johnnysummers5
    Johnnysummers5 Posts: 8,469
    Couple of players could be pushing for a test place, Harry Brook Yorkshire and Matthew Potts Durham
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,801
    Some 10 weeks ago these two great cricketers were still with us:


  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,801
    Saqib Mahmood is out for the rest of the season with a stress structure of the back
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,855
    Addick Addict said:
    Saqib Mahmood is out for the rest of the season with a stress structure of the back
    Grim news, when you consider the injury problems Ollie Stone has had, and Robinson's inability to last the distance
  • billysboots
    billysboots Posts: 1,596
    edited May 2022
    Woakes , Curren and Fisher also crocked
  • Todds_right_hook
    Todds_right_hook Posts: 10,884
    Are archer and wood back playing?
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  • Pelling1993
    Pelling1993 Posts: 6,674
    Potts will almost certainly get a go now
  • billysboots
    billysboots Posts: 1,596
    Todds_right_hook said:
    Are archer and wood back playing?
    No and no 

    I am marking out my long run in the garden as we speak. 
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,855
    Thank god Jimmy and Broady didn't call it a day after being left out from the Windies tour...
  • kentaddick
    kentaddick Posts: 18,729
    tom harrison has stepped down as ECB CEO... thank fuck
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,801
    kentaddick said:
    tom harrison has stepped down as ECB CEO... thank fuck
    Absolutely gutted. 
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,801
    “When times are really difficult you need people to step into that challenge and I am here to do that. I have never been more determined to do that. I am not running away from the challenge,” Harrison said in February. “It has been exceptionally difficult but I am not running away because it needs leadership and some consistency in terms of how we build back to a place where the game can recover from an extremely difficult period both on and off the pitch.”

    Harrison must have been paid his bonus!
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,355
    next ECB chairman (or is it person/woman) is likely to be a female
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,801
    A rather cool looking @Leuth trying to influence the new head coach


  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,801

    But now the bad news according to The Cricketer:

    England look to have kept faith with familiar players for the squad for the first Test of the LV= Insurance Test series against New Zealand.

    As well as recalls for James Anderson and Stuart Broad, The Cricketer understands that Alex Lees, Craig Overton and Jack Leach have retained their places in the squad following the tour to the Caribbean.

    Despite an excellent start to the season, Harry Brook looks set to be included only as a reserve batter with Ollie Pope winning a recall to the side at No. 3. Zak Crawley is expected to open with Lees.

    Ben Foakes is expected to retain his role with the gloves, but Jonny Bairstow may well return to bat at No.5 despite not having played a first-class game since the end of the Caribbean tour. 

    There is understood to be no place for Matt Parkinson, the Lancashire leg-spinner who has enjoyed an excellent start to the season, though Matt Potts, the Durham seamer, is expected to be included. 

    Dan Lawrence and Ollie Robinson are expected to be included in the squad, too, though both will be required to prove their fitness ahead of the Test.

    While several extra players will be named, some – such as Brook – are included in the knowledge they are reserves.

    Some might consider it a surprisingly conservative selection. Certainly, there was much expectation of a bold approach from the new regime of Brendon McCullum and Ben Stokes. But it appears they have instead decided to take a look at existing players before making long-term decisions on their future.



  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,855
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/61445437

    Team confirmed. England squad: Ben Stokes (Durham, captain), James Anderson (Lancashire), Jonny Bairstow (Yorkshire), Stuart Broad (Nottinghamshire), Harry Brook (Yorkshire), Zak Crawley (Kent), Ben Foakes (Surrey), Jack Leach (Somerset), Alex Lees (Durham), Craig Overton (Somerset), Matthew Potts (Durham), Ollie Pope (Surrey), Joe Root (Yorkshire).

    Interestingly it seems Pope will bat at 3, Root 4, Stokes 6. Between Brook and Bairstow at 5 with Lawrence injured

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