England Test coach Brendon McCullum has been appointed the white-ball coach as well. The way he has transformed the Test team, it is expected that he will do the same across formats as well. However, England had poor shows in the 2023 ODI World Cup and the T20 World Cup this year and under Jos Buttler and Brendon McCullum, they will try to bounce back.

“He’s done a great job,” McCullum said at a press conference. “He won a World Cup as captain. He’s an incredibly gifted player. He’s a fine leader. My job is to get the best out of him so that all those that sit in the dressing room feel like they can be 10 feet tall and bulletproof when they walk out to play and they know that the skipper is going to enjoy the ride with them.”

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However, Jos Buttler has not been regular in action since the T20 World Cup with a calf injury ruling him out of The Hundred and then, the upcoming T20I series against Australia at home as well. As things stand, he is also doubtful for the ODIs that follow against their arch-rivals as well. Phil Salt will be the stand-in skipper for T20Is with Harry Brook being the future option as well.

The new head coach, Brendon McCullum, though, is unfazed by the situation and he has a simple message for his captain as well.

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“What I want from Jos is for him to enjoy the next few years. If he was to retire today he’d go down as probably the greatest white-ball player England’s produced. So the opportunity for the next three or four years, however long he plays for, is just to enjoy it. Not to protect anything. Just get the most out of all those guys around him, keep walking towards the danger, play with a smile on his face and try to do something which is really cool, where you can look back and say: ‘Gee, I really enjoyed those last few years,'” Brendon McCullum concluded.