{"id":303547,"date":"2025-11-23T13:21:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T13:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/303547\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T13:21:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T13:21:11","slug":"the-ashes-2025-stuart-broad-podcast-reaction-to-englands-loss-ben-stokes-and-brendon-mccullum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/303547\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ashes 2025 | Stuart Broad podcast reaction to England’s loss; Ben Stokes and Brendon McCullum"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stuart Broad<\/a> believes the task ahead of Ben Stokes<\/a> and Brendon McCullum is the biggest challenge the duo has ever faced as England ponders what next.<\/p>\n

For the next three days, England will lick its wounds during a time the players expected to be on the ground.<\/p>\n

The scrutiny will only heighten as a result, with an English and Australian media pack applying the blowtorch.<\/p>\n

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Usman Khawaja himself couldn’t play a few rounds of golf without being incognito and Broad says the same applies to England.<\/p>\n

“If they go to a golf course, they’re going to be pictured, they’re going to be front page,” he said on he and Jos Buttler’s podcast For The Love Of Cricket.<\/p>\n

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Ben Stokes and Brendon McCullum.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

“But then McCullum’s mentality and psychology around this team is about getting them away from hotels and cricket grounds and freeing their brains up.<\/p>\n

“But the Australian press will be all over them. Stokes will miss a three-footer on the 18 and that will be front page of the paper. That’s just the style of losing and touring here.”<\/p>\n

McCullum has been head coach of England since 2022 which came after Australia won 4-0 in the 2021-22 series.<\/p>\n

The New Zealander’s first Ashes series was in 2023 which ended in a 2-2 draw.<\/p>\n

Stokes took over as captain just before the appointment of McCullum.<\/p>\n

Broad, who played under the two, implied the preparation for the Gabba is make or break.<\/p>\n

“I think this next 10 to 12 days is the biggest challenge McCullum and Stokes have had in their leadership roles with this England team,” he said.<\/p>\n

The second Test at the Gabba will start on December 4.<\/p>\n

England will need to consider whether they want any of the team playing in Canberra for the Lions match against the Prime Minister’s XI. <\/p>\n

That match starts on November 29 and is a two-day pink ball fixture.<\/p>\n

Broad suggested no personnel changes will be made for England’s team at the Gabba.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stuart Broad believes the task ahead of Ben Stokes and Brendon McCullum is the biggest challenge the duo…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303548,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-303547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}