{"id":522883,"date":"2026-07-12T22:20:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T22:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/522883\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T22:20:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T22:20:07","slug":"brendon-mccullum-being-sacked-as-england-test-coach-result-of-woeful-ashes-ex-england-captain-suggests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/522883\/","title":{"rendered":"Brendon McCullum being sacked as England test coach result of woeful Ashes, ex-England captain suggests"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cThis is really a long hangover from the Ashes. They sold themselves short there \u2013 there has obviously been continuing problems since then, with the loss to New Zealand and the off-field stories. Something had to give.\u201d<\/p>\n

Atherton added: \u201cBecause the Ashes went so badly, it left them [the England hierarchy] with very little wriggle room if things went wrong after that \u2013 and things went wrong against New Zealand.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nasser Hussain, another ex-England captain, called for the return of Andy Flower as test coach, with the Zimbabwean guiding England to three Ashes series wins between 2009-14 and taking the side to No 1 in the world.<\/p>\n

\u201cI love Flower\u2019s approach to coaching \u2013 he was meticulous in everything that he did,\u201d Hussain said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat is what has been lacking in this England test match side. I would do anything if I was [managing director] Rob Key and the ECB [English Cricket Board] to go and get Andy Flower.\u201d<\/p>\n

Michael Vaughan,<\/a> England\u2019s 2005 Ashes-winning skipper, said wholesale change was required within the red-ball set-up.<\/p>\n

\u201cEnough is enough, we need to move on,\u201d he told the Stick to Cricket podcast.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is no way in a million years that this management group is maximising \u2026 and I hate using the word talent now because talent only takes you so far, and we keep saying there are a talented group of players \u2013 well, they keep losing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThis is really a long hangover from the Ashes. They sold themselves short there \u2013 there has obviously…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":522884,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[696,806,5272,259002,85,682,92233,13381,1320,1634,259001,2740,71,84429,2190,182948,182945,5494,1304,111,43,139,69,1118,5202,12229,12622,162431,312,30947,765,1961,208,212192],"class_list":["post-522883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-announced","tag-as","tag-ashes","tag-atherton","tag-australia","tag-being","tag-brendon","tag-captain","tag-coach","tag-england","tag-exengland","tag-former","tag-from","tag-hangover","tag-long","tag-mccullum","tag-mccullums","tag-michael","tag-morning","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-of","tag-part","tag-result","tag-sacked","tag-sacking","tag-says","tag-suggests","tag-test","tag-this","tag-tour","tag-woeful"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=522883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/522884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}