Nick Hoult

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Whateley · Nick Hoult - Bazball era comes to a close | Cricket journalist and Author · 14 Jul 2026 podcast

Why didn't they just make this decision at the end of Australia when it was so obvious it wasn't working?

And then even after that, the fact that Stokes clearly wasn't happy really with the way the team were playing under McCullum.

That relationship really was over.

I couldn't really see the point in trying to extend it and trying to start again.

And it's always a lot harder to find a new captain and certainly a lot harder to find an all-rounder than it is to find a new coach.

So it's...

The dithering, really, over the Rex Room stuff, the kind of how it was dragged out for nearly 10 days or so, the public statements about when they didn't back Stokes, McCullum's bizarre press conference when he talked about his concerns about Stokes' mental state, all of this stuff.

It was just...

It was just a soap opera and you just didn't really know what was going to happen next.

Yeah, I think it's confusing for them.

I think it brought home all the weaknesses, really, that were exposed in Australia.

So first of all, you've got a discipline lapse by the captain of all people.

You've then got him threatening to resign, retire.

deciding that he's had enough.

And he genuinely, I think, had had enough of the captaincy, but as a player, not so sure.

But anyway, then you had his advisors sort of pulling him back from the brink.

And then they, of course, they then exposed some of the inconsistencies in the rules around the curfew.

So what does that bring into focus?

Well, that brings in the attention to detail, which again is something that we've seen in Australia on the playing side of things with the way that they prepared players.

for that series.

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