Michael Vaughan
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You know, Baz McCullum's got to change.
You know, this team have not won a five-match series on his watch, got nowhere near a World Test Championship final on his watch, not beating India, not beating Australia.
They're the two series that you're judged on, real big series.
Through the series away against England.
The methods that Baz has brought, you know, and this psychology that he talks about, that, you know, it's about the top two inches and making sure that the mental side's right.
Well, actually, England under him have not won a big series and under real big moments.
they haven't actually coped with the pressure.
You know, you look at this series at the start, they didn't cope with it.
They went 2-0 down too quickly.
So he has to be honest with himself.
I think he can change.
I do.
I think if he's reasonable and not stubborn to understand that it's a learning process, you know, he's relatively quite a young coach.
He hasn't really coached for many, many years.
So,
if he's willing to accept that he needs to change the way that he approaches the game, you look at some of the details about this England side, you know, the preparation's been poor, we'll keep going on about that, but it's been poor, just fielding drills in the morning, I watch Australian, poor, they're a professional outfit, I see Alex Carey down there every morning, just doing those little drills, little drills, I used to see, you know, Matt Pryor do those drills, I saw Alex Stewart for many years do those drills, I don't see Jamie Smith doing those drills, I see Australia taking a load of high balls, every player, load of high balls, I don't see that from the England team, so,
And the detail needs to come in for Bas McCollum to stay.
And if he's willing to create that detail and accept that he's made mistakes and change the process in terms of the way that the team play, I have no problem with the combination carrying on.
But if it's going to be, oh, no, we're going to carry on.
We're going to be a bit flimsy.