Nick Hoult

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

So it sort of embarrassed everyone that was involved.

It was embarrassing for Stokes to have broken the rules like that and be caught and get involved in that situation.

And it was embarrassing for Rob Key to have the rules that he'd imposed not only broken by the captain, so what does that say about his authority, but also to then discover that they hadn't actually possibly been communicated properly to the players.

It just...

It was staggering at times, it really was.

And you left Trent Bridge actually thinking, well, the one guy that's gone is the one guy they really still need.

They still need Ben Stokes, the cricketer, maybe not the captain, maybe you can move on in that direction.

Done four years, that's enough for most people.

But they needed Ben Stokes, the all-rounder.

And yeah, he was gone, and Baz and Rob Key were still there.

Now Baz is gone as well, so that has been rectified, I guess.

But yeah, there's been some incredible twists and...

And like I said, it did feel like the sort of end days of an Ashes tour when anything can happen.

But the difference being they're at home this time.

Look, I think if they'd have got rid of McCullum and started again in January, I don't think the incident in the nightclub would have happened because

I think there would have been a fresh start.

There would have been a new respect between the captain and coach.

And I think Stokes spent a lot of his time sort of going over what happened in Australia.

I think he may well have come back as well into the test set up and recognised that

McCullum had built a good relationship with Harry Brook.

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