Jonathan Agnew

You have to make things different because it's unprofessional.

What happened was unprofessional.

And so somebody has to be accountable for that.

I've felt, actually, there's Rob Key that's accountable for that, because he's McCullum's boss, if you like.

They're big mates, and that has to be something that's going to make it awkward.

That is not an easy relationship for Rob Key suddenly to tell Brendan McCullum what to do.

Now, because they're big mates, if McCullum wants to keep the job, then he might well obviously take on the things that are being put his way.

But you can't change a person.

Brendan McCullum,

is Brendan McCullum.

That's the way that he played cricket.

It's the human being that he is.

He's an extremely sociable, very friendly, very affable, very easygoing fella.

That's what he is.

And at the time, and I think it's really important to stress this, at the time that he and Stokes came in, they were a breath of fresh air.

And the whole start of the Baz Ball, if you want to call it that, era, was because of Brendan McCullum.

He brought that breath of fresh air.

He instilled that environment in that dressing room that enabled those largely the same players to rediscover themselves and to play good cricket again.

And he deserves a huge amount of credit for that.

Where they got it wrong is they didn't see actually that there was a point at which they had to stop that, or at least keep where they were, but then recognise that they're not going to