BAZ JOB ON LINE AS TALKS BEGIN

but under-fire McCullum is reluctant to rip up script

- FROM RORY DOLLARD in Sydney

ENGLAND'S under-pressure head coach Brendon McCullum has confirmed talks about his future have started in the aftermath of a disastrous Ashes tour.

The heat is on McCullum after the team 4-1 defeat in Australia, with his England and Wales Cricket Board [ECB] employers launching a review.

The picture got even murkier when news emerged that Harry Brook, captain of the limited-overs side and Ben Stokes' deputy Down Under, had been fined for a late night altercation with a club bouncer on the eve of an ODI defeat in New Zealand earlier this winter.