Michael Vaughan

Guess he used to do that when he batted, Baz McCullum.

So, you know, you can see what Baz has tried to do.

But I do think the attention to detail of this England side up until now, where I'm now starting to hear and see from that interview from Rob and from what I've heard today from the ECB, the attention to detail is going to come back.

The attention to detail actually served English cricket really well from around 2003 to 2021.

If you look at the amount of test series that the team won, you're looking at the World Cups that the team won, winning away in India, getting to number one in the world.

There was a lot of times around that period where the attention to detail was absolutely spot on.

And it looks to me like maybe they've gone to Baz and said, Baz, for you to carry on, we've got to get back to just a little bit of attention to detail.

I'm delighted to hear that he's going to speak to the counties.

I would think from looking from outside, I would hope it's the first thing that you'd want to do as an England coach.

I'm a bit disappointed that he's not coming a bit earlier.

I think for the optics of Baz McCullum, you know, all right, going on a Zoom and speaking to the director of cricket on whenever it is, the 30th of this month, like it.

But I just think sometimes...

And I don't think he's this kind of person because I don't think he'll ever do anything for what it looks like.

But I think at this stage, when you're trying to win back the fans, trying to win back a little bit of the game, if I was Brendan McCullum, I'd have come a few weeks earlier, get seen around the counties, go and talk to a few coaches, go and speak to a few umpires, get seen out and about, just for the optics.

Because at this stage, he needs the fans.

And he needs the game to kind of get behind his philosophy a little bit more than we have done of late because it hasn't quite worked.

And he's disappointed in the winter with a performance in Australia where we all gave them great hope because we saw an England side that had a chance.

And it was the first time that I looked at an England side since Cookies side in 10-11 before we got a chance here.

And when I saw that preparation, I went, oh, no.

And that wasn't the only one.