Brendon McCullum is organising a week-long team-bonding camp for England’s Test players in New Zealand next year as part of the new head coach’s philosophy of maximising off-field enjoyment and relaxation.
A feature of England’s remarkable winning start to the Test summer – four successive run-chases that peaked with a record 378 against India at Edgbaston – has been a loosening of any rigid training demands by McCullum and his captain, Ben Stokes, with players given greater say over their pre‑match preparation.
