'Brendon McCullum has separated England from rest of the world – the sky's the limit'

England are preparing to instrumentality connected West Indies successful their past ODI bid earlier Test manager Brendon McCullum takes implicit the achromatic shot side

Brendon McCullum has separated England from the remainder of the cricketing world.

That's the presumption of TNT Sports' Jason Holder arsenic McCullum prepares to instrumentality complaint of England's achromatic shot set-up successful January. The New Zealander has revolutionised England's Test team, adjacent if results haven't ever been positive.

The 'Bazball' doctrine has brought its just stock of critics, but it's wide to spot the enjoyment from players moving nether McCullum and Test skipper Ben Stokes. And Holder expects England's ethos to transportation implicit erstwhile McCullum takes the reins successful constricted overs cricket.

"Brendon McCullum has done an outstanding job," Holder said. "The beauteous happening astir his tenure is the buy-in he's had from the players.

"That's what's made their cricket truthful entertaining and truthful exciting.

"You person excessively galore limiting factors wrong definite teams and wrong definite cultures and you request a limitless situation wherever guys tin explicit themselves freely and cognize they'll beryllium backed and picked for the adjacent game.

"If you springiness guys that state and that confidence, the sky's the limit. Once you pigeonhole a feline and you restrict them, that endurance instinct comes in. They wonderment whether to explicit themselves oregon look for a score.

"That's wherever England are separating themselves from the remainder of the world. They've been capable to springiness guys the accidental and players person been capable to explicit themselves and cognize they'll beryllium backed."

England question to the Caribbean for 3 ODIs and 5 T20Is successful their last white-ball bid earlier McCullum takes over. Just days aft a Test bid decision successful Pakistan wherever the batters struggled, a fresh-looking England broadside takes to the tract successful Antigua tomorrow.

There are 4 imaginable debutants successful the travelling squad, including Michael Pepper and John Turner, portion Liam Livingstone captains successful the lack of the injured Jos Buttler.

Jofra Archer is besides successful the travelling squad having featured against Australia past period and Holder expects England's players to travel retired swinging.

"These bid are ever absorbing to ticker due to the fact that you spot players knuckling down and trying to drawback each azygous opportunity," Holder added.

"You ne'er cognize however galore opportunities you volition get successful these benignant of situations, truthful you truly privation to marque it count.

"It's a large accidental for Jofra to get immoderate cricket nether his belt. He tin gradually physique up his workload and get backmost into the plaything of planetary cricket."

Tune successful to England's circuit of the West Indies, starting with the archetypal ODI unrecorded connected TNT Sports 1 from 5.30pm connected 31st October. Sign up to TNT Sports and discovery+ here

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