Brendon McCullum has “no adverse bone in his physique” but whether he succeeds in his new job as head coach of England Test team, to an extent, could depend on how well he adapts to coaching in red-ball cricket after managing T20 franchises, feels Dinesh Karthik.

Karthik teamed up with McCullum during their stint together in the IPL with the Kolkata Knight Riders — McCullum and Karthik were coach and captain of the franchise respectively in the 2019 season.

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The Indian wicketkeeper-batter expects McCullum to bring a positive attitude to the England Test team.

“The one thing I can tell you in the enormous amounts of time I’ve spent with him is that there is no negative bone in his body,” Karthik mentioned on the ICC Review.

“He is any person who needs to do all the pieces in a constructive method.”

“So it’s going to be very interesting when Ben Stokes and Brendon McCullum meet up and figure out what’s the positive way for England cricket to do things.”

McCullum continues to be an inexperienced coach within the worldwide circuit, and Karthik believes he must adapt to the position.

“I believe there might be sure issues that might be undoubtedly new to Brendon McCullum,” he said.

“There is no doubt about it. Even though he has done his coaching bit for Kolkata Knight Riders and for Trinbago Knight Riders, I think red-ball cricket is a completely different kettle of fish.”

The England males’s group has been going via a troublesome time — they misplaced the Ashes 4-0 in Australia, after which suffered a sequence defeat within the West Indies as nicely, prompting Joe Root to step down as captain.

“I believe McCullum needs to take this up as a result of he sees this as a serious problem.”

“A team that has obviously not done really well in the last two years. A bit in the dumps but to try and resurrect and try and take them to the pinnacle of Test cricket, which is what they are aiming to do.”

During his stint because the New Zealand captain, McCullum was extensively credited with bettering the tradition of the group. This led to an enchancment in outcomes, culminating in some well-known victories.

Asked what tradition McCullum would inculcate within the aspect, Karthik believed the ambiance across the group can be a “relaxed” one.

“It will be a very relaxed dressing room. I’ve seen that he is somebody who focuses a lot on playing a lot of sports off the field and off the field having a lot of fun as well.

“He emphasizes a lot on it like a young kid who likes to play all the sports possible and gets very physical as well. He is a very strong man, there is no doubt about it. Sometimes even too strong for the current cricketers today. It will be a very relaxed dressing room, a very chill dressing room.

“It’ll be very interesting how the youngsters are able to draw energy from that and make sure they are doing all things right to take English cricket forward.”

McCullum does have a process on his palms, particularly with many white-ball tournaments developing, together with the T20 World Cup in Australia later this 12 months and the World Cup subsequent 12 months.

In such a case, managing the workload of the gamers taking part in each codecs may pose a tough state of affairs for McCullum.

When quizzed on what can be McCullum’s first precedence as the pinnacle coach, Karthik mentioned, “I believe to learn how a lot of a precedence is it for ECB to play red-ball cricket.

“Because there are such a lot of white-ball tournaments developing, the place is Test cricket positioned proper now by way of availability of the gamers in order that he can transfer the group ahead.

“The English cricket group have a number of gamers that overlap between white-ball and red-ball cricket and it might get onerous to play each codecs all through the summer time. So typically you must quit on a format for a sure time as a way to concentrate on a serious match or Test sequence that’s going to return up.

“So the precedence on which participant and what number of good gamers is he going to get to play Test cricket is one thing he has to determine with the directors.”

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