Former New Zealand captain Brendon McCullum is all set to develop into the Take a look at crew trainer of England. McCullum, who’s lately serving as Kolkata Knight Riders’ trainer on the ongoing Indian Premier League (IPL) 2022, is assumed to have agreed in theory to just accept the task.

Significantly, the New Zealander was once anticipated to be a candidate for the white-ball training task, because the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) has break up the principle training roles. Then again, a number of British newspapers reported on Tuesday evening that McCullum is now in line for the Take a look at task following the interviews held initially of this week.

Appointing McCullum because the Take a look at crew trainer of England would indubitably be a daring transfer as the previous wicketkeeper-batter hasn’t ever coached the top notch facet. However he’s extensively credited for converting the tradition of New Zealand’s Take a look at crew because the chief between 2013 and 2016 and come what may laying the root for the Global Take a look at Championship name ultimate yr below his successor, Kane Williamson.

Rob Key, the ECB’s new managing director of fellows’s cricket, has reportedly led the interview procedure and printed all through his first press convention at Lord’s that he had sought reviews at the Take a look at facet from the present while-ball skipper Eoin Morgan – who occurs to be McCullum’s shut good friend and KKR’s captain in IPL 2021 all through their run to the general.

“I’ve spoken to Eoin about red-ball cricket as smartly. I requested his opinion. You need excellent other folks with excellent brains round you to paintings stuff out, so Eoin Morgan is any individual I might discuss to about such a lot of various things,” mentioned Key, as quoted via ESPNcricinfo.

That mentioned, Key additionally stressed out the ECB wishes to herald extra English coaches, admitting this is a failure of the gadget.

“Let’s be fair, we’re at this level the place now we have two training jobs, and nearly all of the names coming at you’ll be out of the country coaches. That may’t be proper. That may be a fault of the gadget, and we want to be sorting this out. Each time I learn [the media], you might be at all times tipping out of the country coaches, and that’s the fault people on the ECB,” mentioned Key, as quoted via SkySports.