Sir Alistair Cook

Don't worry about all the other stuff.

Have a real clear understanding of how to get better and be simple in it and actually help the players that way rather than, I don't know, as you say, a cult or whatever.

It just got a bit confusing there.

And you're right.

You are right.

It feels like a cult.

I'm not surprised that everyone is staying in their job because I think...

Even as long ago as the last Test match in Australia, in Sydney, we were being told that Brendan McCullum and Rob Key would be given the chance to put things right.

I might be surprised, actually, that they all wanted to stay in their job.

And from Brendan McCullum's point of view...

If, you know, we've just talked about whether or not it's Baz's way or the highway.

And clearly there are some, I don't know, things that might be being bought in that he might not necessarily have agreed with in the first place.

So back when he slimmed down the backroom staff, he got rid of the fielding coach.

And then we had a fielding coach back on an ad hoc basis in Sri Lanka and at the World Cup.

I suppose the question could be,

Are all of the management too inextricably linked?

Have they decided we are in this together?

And that goes right to the top, actually, to Richard Thompson as the chairman.

Don't forget Andrew Flintoff as well as the line coach.

These are all powerful figures in the game.