Brendon McCullum will take over the England white-ball teams in the new year but what are the key issues he faces in the job?

England’s white-ball teams will have Brendon McCullum at the helm when they regroup for a tour of India in the new year as Marcus Trescothick’s caretaker stint came to an end in the Caribbean.

McCullum has signed a deal with the ECB taking him up until the end of 2027, a period incorporating the next two Ashes series plus 50-over and Twenty20 World Cups.

The curse lives on. Seven games into England’s white-ball tour of the Caribbean, every match has still been won by the team batting second. The streak fleetingly threatened to be broken as England amassed 218-5,

England's fifth and final T20 international of their series in the Caribbean was rained off on Sunday, leaving the tourists with a 3-1 series win.

Alice Capsey will join England Women's T20I squad for their tour of South Africa after earning a belated call-up to cover for injury. Capsey, who was initially left out of the touring party amid an extended form slump with the bat,

She was part of the England side which suffered a group-stage exit from October's T20 World Cup. Capsey did not pass 20 runs in any of her three innings at the tournament in the U