McCullum is due to lead England to the T20 World Cup in India and Sri Lanka next month, and a decision on his future is unlikely to be taken until after that tournament.<\/p>\n
And all-rounder Stokes said he would “hope” to be consulted on any potential changes to the England hierarchy.<\/p>\n
“It is a situation nobody knows whether it is going to happen or not but we’re both pretty keen on carrying on doing what we are doing,” said Stokes.<\/p>\n
England won 10 of their first 11 Tests under Stokes and McCullum, but their results have been mixed since that opening burst of success.<\/p>\n
In their past 34 Tests, England have won 16 and lost 16, with two draws. They have not managed a victory in a marquee five-Test series against Australia or India.<\/p>\n
At the beginning of 2025, McCullum also assumed control of England’s white-ball teams. Since then, England have won only four of their 10 Tests, including an expected comfortable victory Zimbabwe at Trent Bridge in May.<\/p>\n
In explaining the reasons for England’s poor performance in the Ashes, Key pointed to the white-ball series in New Zealand prior to this tour as a hindrance to preparation in Australia. The former England and Kent batter said he was not willing to “write off” the matches against the Black Caps.<\/p>\n
But Stokes does not believe McCullum’s dual role is having a detrimental effect on the Test team.<\/p>\n
“He has got two jobs to do now,” said Stokes. “It has not influenced the relationship we have with this Test team whatsoever.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"McCullum is due to lead England to the T20 World Cup in India and Sri Lanka next month,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":387078,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-387077","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-cricket","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387077","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=387077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}