Stephan Shemilt

But might England in the future be asked to change their selection policy and take more notice of performances in county cricket?

These are all things that might be...

I don't know if I want to use the word imposed on Brendan McCullum, but suggested as changes around the setup.

And he said at the end of the Sydney test, if he is not the man steering the ship, then maybe someone else would do a better job.

Well, we're going to find out if Brendan McCullum still feels he is the man steering the ship and if he can fulfil the rest of the 18 months left on his contract.

Yeah, I think that there is definitely a world where that happens.

I would say at the moment, by the time England play their first international of the summer, and that is a test match, the most likely scenario is that Rob Key is still the director of cricket and Ben Stokes is the captain.

And it is the future of Brendan McCullum that is now...

Most in doubt, and even if England were to do well in the T20 World Cup, well, I'll remind you that the last T20 World Cup, England got to the semi-finals and Matthew Mott still lost his job.

Just picking up on Agassi's point about the image of the England men's team at the moment, well, I'd actually throw the image of the England men's and the England women's team into the mix there at the moment because of the things that came out of the women's tour of Australia last

just over a year ago in terms of fitness and results.

And then at the T20 World Cup before that, players on boat parties before they got knocked out of that competition.

At the moment, Charlotte Edwards still hasn't turned results around fully yet.

there and I guess just to bring it back and this is definitely not one that we've got time for in this podcast now I think we'd be here all day when Agus mentioned that the sex drugs and rock and roll tour of the early 80s well at first I thought he was talking about his own career but actually there is there is a there's just an entirely wider debate to be had about alcohol's role in cricket and

And, you know, talking to Phil Tufnell during the Australia tour, he would have said, well, these lads aren't doing anything that we didn't do.

In fact, put five of their drinkers against me and Wayne Larkins and Alan Lamb and they wouldn't have stood a chance.

And we know that Travis Head has enjoyed himself during that tour because he was winning and nothing gets asked there.

But really, cricket is in the dark ages, isn't it, when it comes to professional sport?

When you look to what rugby has come in with its professional era, what professional footballers do, some Olympians, they do not touch a drop anymore.

you know, in the four years that they are building up to their competition.