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Sunday Express
|January 04, 2026
Any other country would sack McCullum after England's Ashes rollover Down Under - not give him one more chance
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EXCLUSIVE BY RICHARD EDWARDS WITH any other national side, England head coach Brendon McCullum would have been out of a job by now.
And Stuart Law believes that the Kiwi might already have lost the trust of key players such as Joe Root, and is on borrowed time after England's latest Ashes flop.
The tourists went into the fifth Test in Sydney last night. with the series long over.
Law has coached Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, West Indies and Afghanistan in the past. And the former Aussie international reckons that last week's win for England in Melbourne only papers over the cracks.
He said: "Look at McCullum's record overall and it's pretty good - but if you take a snapshot since 2024, it doesn't read well at all.
"That suggests there might be an element of distrust creeping in.
"Root is a great example. When he bought fully into the 'gung-ho' mantra - reverse ramps, first-ball heroics - his game suffered.
'Now he just bats at his tempo, his way, and he scores hundreds again. I know for a fact that if McCullum was
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