McCullum’s winning way: Trust your players, not the process

Paul Rees looks at what rugby can learn from England's new test cricket coach

The dead have been dancing this summer. England’s cricket team won four successive matches by chasing targets that veered from the unlikely to the never been done before. A team that only last winter batted in strait-jackets and bowled in far looser grab shed its wardrobe for something more colourful and dashing. Under a new coach and captain, one word was uttered above any other: attack.
And so Alex Lees, an opening batsman who in West Indies could barely hit the ball off the square, came down the wicket to one ...

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