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Test Match Special

The state of English men’s cricket

23 Mar 2026

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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?

0.031 - 3.566 Michael Vaughan

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Chapter 2: What changes have been announced for England's cricket management?

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Chapter 3: What were the lessons learned from the recent Ashes series?

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Chapter 4: How will England's style of play evolve under the current management?

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68.24 - 73.171 Sir Alistair Cook

You're listening to the TMS Podcast from BBC Radio 5 Live.

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73.772 - 75.697 Stefan Shemilt

Hello, welcome to the TMS Podcast.

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Chapter 5: What specific changes can we expect for the upcoming summer?

75.717 - 92.436 Stefan Shemilt

Joining us for this episode, cricket correspondent Stefan Schemmelt, former England captains Michael Vaughan and Sir Alistair Cook, and we'll also be joined by the managing director of England men's cricket, Rob Key. We've got a lot to get through, particularly with what's been announced. No changes of personnel.

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Chapter 6: How does the management plan to improve relations with County cricket?

92.456 - 102.06 Stefan Shemilt

Rob Key, Brendan McCullum, Ben Stokes all remaining in place. Do you want to go through, Stefan, some of the other things that you have read and watched today?

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102.04 - 121.433 Sir Alistair Cook

It's a tradition, isn't it, now for cricket administrators to gather at Lourdes every four years to tell us where an England Ashes tour has gone wrong. I think anyone who's expecting, I don't know, white smoke going over the pavilion or a big document to land on the table today was going to be disappointed because it wasn't that sort of...

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121.548 - 151.048 Sir Alistair Cook

review things that Rob Key and Richard Gould talked about were the performance system around the England team so that might be the backroom staff or performance staff team selection where mistakes might have been made during the ashes and whether or not players were given too much loyalty when they had carried on their performances and the connection between the England team and the domestic set up planning and preparation so we know

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Chapter 7: Have the management decisions been influenced by the coach?

151.028 - 164.988 Sir Alistair Cook

England's planning before that series. They only played that one game at Lilac Hill before the first test in Perth. And we know that talks have taken place with Cricket Australia to maybe get a better understanding between the two countries for Ash's series going forward.

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Chapter 8: Is the current setup perceived as a clique or cult?

165.369 - 186.754 Sir Alistair Cook

And also culture and environment, because there's a lot of talk. during the Ashes and afterwards about the England approach on and off the field. So the things that England highlighted were having a positive and relaxed professional high-performance environment, new expectations around team behaviours and better individual and collective decision-making.

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187.335 - 207.386 Stefan Shemilt

OK, so that's what they discussed and we'll talk about that with Robin in just a moment. Ben Stokes then put out an Instagram post This evening, the last three months has without doubt been the hardest period of my captaincy journey. It's tested me in oh so many different ways, and I'm sure every other captain has gone through this as well.

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207.866 - 230.562 Stefan Shemilt

I've learnt a lot about myself, but the most important thing that I want the fans to know is that... He then says, I effing love cricket, I effing love this team, I effing love being England captain and I've got so much more to give to this role and I'm so happy that I get to do it with Baz and Rob. We appreciate every single person who supports us.

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230.723 - 249.285 Stefan Shemilt

We do what we do for many reasons, but one of those reasons is to bring our supporters and fans happiness and a sense of pride. We will aim to do those things as much as we can. in the future. What do you make of his post? What do you make, Michael, and we'll bring Alistair in and then we'll talk to Rob, that everybody stays, right?

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249.465 - 255.832 Stefan Shemilt

They've had the review, they know where they want to focus, but they're doing it with the same people.

255.852 - 267.503 Michael Vaughan

Yeah, I never had any doubt, even after the ashes. I always felt they were going to keep with this same management group. They've been together for three and a bit years. They've had some exciting times, but...

267.483 - 290.315 Michael Vaughan

they haven't won enough they haven't won the major trophies so that's something that they can I guess use the experience of difficult times in the winter to try and move forward and as long as they learn as a group and as a team understand that playing one way is not going to win you a major trophy, which in our case is an Ashes, or a big series victory against India.

290.375 - 305.623 Michael Vaughan

I mean, a lot of this is focusing on test match cricket because it's still the principle here in the UK. It's what we talk about more than any of the formats. We're just on the back end of a decent performance in the T20 World Cup, but I think of the three suits, I think our T20 team is our strongest.

305.603 - 330.463 Michael Vaughan

I think our 50-over team has got plenty of work to do and our test team is exciting at times but doesn't win enough. So in terms of no change, I expected that. That statement is quite a passionate one from Ben Stokes. Very passionate. And I totally agree. I still feel that Ben Stokes has got a huge amount to offer in this cricket. And I don't think Ben's position was ever questioned.

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