England test head coach Brendon McCullum wants to stay in his job despite a poor Ashes series defeat, but he also admits his future is out of his hands. However, England are now 3-0 down in the five-match series after just 11 days of cricket, outplayed by the Australian team.

“I’ll just keep trying to do the job, try to learn the lessons that we haven’t quite got right here and try to make some adjustments,” said McCullum. “Those questions are for someone else, not for me. Sometimes you don’t win, and then those decisions are up to other people. It’s a pretty good gig, it’s good fun. You travel the world with the lads and try to play some exciting cricket and try to achieve some things.”

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However, Brendon McCullum also said that he believed England had improved since he took over in 2022, when he and captain Ben Stokes joined hands and urged players to play a fearless form of cricket dubbed “Bazball”.

“We’re not the finished article, but I think we’ve definitely improved as a cricket team,” he said. “We’ve had an identity about us. You’re always looking at what you’ve got right and what you’ve got wrong, and you’re not too ignorant to admit — or too arrogant either — that you get some things wrong. (It’s OK) as long as you don’t keep making the same mistakes.”

“I’ll always have the back of my players, and always support them, and I’ll always make sure that I’m protective of them as well in a public forum. That doesn’t mean you don’t challenge privately, but in a public forum, you’re always protective. I wouldn’t imagine anything would change in the coming days as we look to try and salvage something from this. I have conviction in the style of cricket that I try to get the teams to play, with the players that you’ve got who are suited to it,” Brendon McCullum concluded.