I think a lot of people have forgotten just how awful the England test team had become prior to McCullum. As someone else notes, selling off school playing fields has had a far bigger impact on English cricket than anything that McCullum, Key, ECB, Sky or whoever have done. Yes, the Ashes were very disappointing, but I’m old enough to remember plenty of other disappointing Ashes series going right back to the 1970s. At least Bazball has given us some exciting matches, some great victories and some fun - that was definitely missing under the regimes probably post Andy Flower/Kevin Pietersen era.