Why could Brook Captaincy Call Key and McCullum Define

Harry Brook is the clear favorite that rises, but has only recently become vice captain and, in contrast to Morgan or Buttler, is an all-format master guest in front of him. To play in all three formats for England while he is captain in two parts in modern times and juggles a hundred for two months on the IPL and a month.

Brook impressed when he stood against Australia last September while England’s Odis, and has other management experiences with the under 19th, Yorkshire and Northern Superchargers. At the age of 26 it could be the production of him. If someone can finish with the workload, it’s Brook.

However, this does not make this a simple decision. Brook has an average of almost 60 in the test cricket, but still has to record the international white ball cricket: he was now at four ICC events and his only game in the game was against Namibia. In 2025 he has to deal with 188 runs in 11 goals and a lonely half a century since England arrived in India at the beginning of the year.

The most important thing is that Brook’s schedule is already full. England’s next Odi series begins four days after the IPL final. If Brook’s capitals in Delhi are switched off early, he will probably play a test against Zimbabwe instead. McCullum insists that England’s game list loosens, but they still have 11 tests, 27 bilateral white ball and a T20 World Cup that is planned in the next 12 months.

The risks are therefore twice and dependent. First, Brook will not have the same determined focus on white ball cricket like Morgan and Buttler and risk selling English Odi and T20I teams. Secondly, there is a risk that Brook will spread so thinly that his eyelash will suffer from the England test team.

These disadvantages were obvious last summer when Brook was the only player who played during the T20 World Championship and in England’s homes and ended this stretch, who looked uncertain after a few mixed messaging. It culminated in its slimest complete test series and achieved an average of 30 against Sri Lanka when her sailor is bored in the oval.

McCullum’s appointment as a all-format trainer was based on the premise that England’s play list is better manageable after years after the covidal deficit and should ensure consistent messaging for multi-format players. But England will certainly not want Brook to play T20is in New Zealand in the construction of the ashes of the next winter: If it is appointed, he will need a deputy.

McCullum did not rule out anything on Saturday. He was open to the prospect of appointing separate 50 and T20 captains – “If it is the same person, then great; if there are two different people, then also great” – or even bring in a guide from outside the current squad. “I will come home in the next few days and have discussions with Rob Key and the boys at the ECB about who is the right person for us to put in this position.”

Perhaps the most important conversation from everyone will be with Brook. England play more tests than any other and almost as much limited cricket: In the past ten years, at least one format had to make room for each of their constant captains. Before McCullum and Key decide that Brook is her husband, you have to make sure that he feels ready to accept an unprecedented challenge.

Key will know that he took the ball off the ball with England’s white ball teams. He supported Buttler after the T20 World Cup of last year and extended McCullum contract to cover all formats. Buttler has now resigned and McCullum has monitored ten losses in 11 games. If another appointment goes wrong, it will use itself, the position of which is under the exam.

He also has to be responsible for the predictable composition of the English bowling attack, which granted 57.46 runs per wicket and went 6.8 runs per over in the Champions Trophy. From McCullum Supported by McCullum, Key pushed itself to an inventory of all-format-high-pace suturing-bowlers, but the step was missing backwards: Brydon Carse and Mark Wood were both leaked and were then injured.

Both McCullum and Key drove up two years ago and in the early days of Bazball -era and – in Key’s case – their 2022 T20 World Championship triumph by England’s daring cricket and strong results in the early days of Bazball -ära and – in Key’s case. Since then, her inventory has fallen with considerable responsibility for the English mid-table finish in the world test championship table and its catastrophic white ball this year.

It leaves the couple before a huge verdict when it comes to Brook. As the best young dough in England, Brook’s output will make a major contribution to dictating her success in the ashes of the next winter and the T20 World Cup – two series that Key and McCullum know that their legacies depend.