Former England cricketer Michael Vaughan raised questions over Gary Kirsten being handed over for the job of teaching England’s Check squad in favor of Brendon McCullum, calling his choice a “large threat” for the English crew.
On Thursday, the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) introduced Brendon McCullum’s appointment as England’s Check crew coach. The 41-year-old, who’s presently related to the Kolkata Knight Riders within the Indian Premier League, was unanimously chosen by the board and his first stint with the crew would be the upcoming residence sequence towards New Zealand.
Vaughan was sad with McCullum’s appointment over Kirsten and felt that the crew would have been in safer arms beneath Kirsten’s management. “England’s daring appointment of Brendon McCullum makes me nervous. If English cricket has ignored somebody like Gary Kirsten for a second time I do discover it extremely weird. I don’t see how we’ve made that decision twice,” he wrote in his column for the Telegraph.
One factor is for positive, we’re in for an attention-grabbing experience: Vaughan
Michael Vaughan heaped praises for Kirsten and his expertise within the position, explaining how he would have been the suitable match for the England job. He additionally mentioned that at a time when England has seen a disastrous decline of their efficiency in Assessments, giving the accountability to somebody extra skilled would have labored higher for the ECB.
“He’s the proper mentor, thinker, and tradition driver who has performed it earlier than and has the t-shirt. What England has gone for in Brendon is thrilling and an enormous identify, however it’s a large threat as effectively. He takes over England on the proper time. They’re at their lowest ebb because the mid-Nineteen Nineties,” he added.
“He won’t need to do a lot for us all to see a large enchancment but when it doesn’t occur rapidly then there shall be questions requested about his appointment and whether or not England would have been higher off with a safer pair of arms, extra skilled and know the best way to coach in Check cricket. However one factor is for positive, we’re in for an attention-grabbing experience,” he additional wrote.
McCullum’s T20 franchise teaching experience and good camaraderie with skipper Eoin Morgan would have appeared to make him an ideal selection to educate the white-ball crew. And whereas there have been stories about McCullum taking up the white-ball duties, he opined his views on the position saying it didn’t curiosity him.
