Barney Ronay

incredibly annoying, semi-amateurish kind of attitude came more from McCullum and Key, really.

And you saw that towards the end of The Ashes with Stokes with his no place for weak men stuff about Australia and the sense of a slight schism opening up between them.

I think he got kind of led into the McCullum place.

You know, he met a charismatic man who told him things and he followed him.

And I don't think he felt totally comfortable with it all the way.

I have to say, I think McCullum without Stokes...

There's just nothing there.

He's, to me, a singularly unimpressive sports coach.

And I've met loads of them.

And you do develop a test for when someone is operating on very, very thin gruel.

And McCullum, nah.

Not for me.

These people are very impressed by him.

English people are very impressed by McCullum.

There's something about him that really appeals to them.

But he's been paid two million pounds a year to do this job.

A lot was made of him turning up in the country on the 24th of May, the week before they broke for this test.

So ignoring seven rounds of championship games.

And it was sort of, well, maybe he needs a break or something.

16 days after he turned up in the country, this happened.