Jonathan Agnew

Thank you, Brandon.

Thanks for coming.

There we go, that's Brendan McCullum talking to Jonathan Agnew.

Jonathan's alongside me now.

Let's try to pick the bones out of that.

So he wants to continue, but not that keen necessarily on fundamentally changing the way he does things.

I thought it was very interesting there, because there are moments in there where it sounds as if he is saying, yeah, we can do things better.

Lessons learned, the usual sort of stuff that you hear.

But then the fatal question at the end, really, if you were told to change, would you?

And he said, I think you know the answer to that, which is sort of what we've been talking about all the way through, don't we?

I mean, he is firmly a man of his convictions, absolutely.

Brendan McCullum is Brendan McCullum.

It's the way he played cricket, it's the way he coaches cricket, it's the way he lives his life.

He is just that sort of person.

He doesn't strike me as being the sort of person who would agree to change, well, to change too much.

I mean, he might, because I think he is obviously intelligent and grown up enough to know that perhaps things have not gone right here, therefore that things do have to change to an extent.

But I think the core beliefs that he has...

which is empowering the players, making them believe in themselves, enjoying their cricket, seizing initiative.

These are sort of the core elements of what he believes in, isn't it?

I'd be surprised if he gives too much on that, but then those convictions are probably right.