Simon, did you have an estimated points total for this first international break later than normal? But eight games in, 13, I'd give that a B, almost an A-, if I was marking it as a schoolteacher.

Well, with the people I go with, we do our sort of blocks.

How many are we going to get from the X number of games? We did the first eight games.

I went for 10 points.

Colin, my friend, he went for 10 points as well.

His son went for 11 points.

But actually, I think we should have 19 points.

what what are we closer to emulating them than we were a couple of years ago with the new setup you know with ellis and and scudamore's voice in the background

Is, is McCullum safe?

That's, um, again, Brian, you're asking all the pertinent questions, and that's a, that's a very good question.

I, I mean, I did an interview with him afterwards- Where I said to him, "Do, you know, do you intend to carry on?" He said, "Yeah, I'm totally committed." Um, and I said, "Do you expect, uh, to carry on?" And he gave me basically a one-word answer, "Yeah, that's part of the process," or something like that.

Um, it's to, to be decided really.

I think there is a, there is now a ...

You can sort of, kind of get a sense that among England cricket sports, and of course it's difficult without, you know, going to speak to all of them.

I get a sense that they feel the wrong person has gone.

Was that part of their mentality? Was it a r- you know, two-finger salute to the English Cricket Board? What brought about that? Or was it just, you know, this is Bazball, we'll play it this way?

Was the difference just the style of play, how they went about achieving the end

result? What was the difference between the two sides? Well, you could argue there wasn't much.

India's strength, probably in their batting, England, I thought their bowling was a bit fractured in this series.

So they never got their best attack onto the field in one game.

And even when they got their best bowlers onto the field, they weren't really quite primed for it.

I mean, for example, Gus Atkinson played in this test match and he hadn't played for two months or something like that.

Okay, he bowled well in the first inning.

Can England play that way in Australia? Can they stick to the system that's been set up by McCullum and Stokes, or do they have to adjust that? Do they have to show a bit more discipline in how they play the game?