India, July 12 -- Brendon McCullum is on the brink of being fired by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) as head coach of the senior men'sTest setup amid a raft of catastrophic red-ball results over the last calendar year. Breaking exclusively by senior sports journalist Tom Morris, the ECB is expected to make a formal announcement later this evening in a bid to formally bring the controversial Bazball era to an abrupt close.

The seismic administrative shake-up occurs only some days after McCullum's closely associated red-ball captain Ben Stokes announced an immediate international retirement following a string of off-field curfew violations and a stark drop in form. With decision-makers having allegedly had their fill of crushing ...