On Thursday, McCullum, the former New Zealand captain who has worked majorly as a white-ball coach in T20 franchise cricket, was handed the job of England's Test coach. His first assignment will be England's three-match home Test against New Zealand, the current World Test Championship (WTC) winners, in June.
England is 2-0 down in the five-match series after losing the first and second Tests in Brisbane and Adelaide by nine wickets and 275 runs, respectively.
Former England captain Nasser Hussain has urged Joe Root and Co. to adopt a "we'll show them" attitude ahead of the second Ashes Test in Adelaide.
After making 166/4 in 20 overs, England needed to defend 57 runs off the last four overs against New Zealand at Abu Dhabi on Wednesday. But Chris Jordan, Adil Rashid, and Chris Woakes conceded 23, 14, and 20 runs in the next three overs respectively, tilting the match sensationally in New Zealand's favour.
Following his second operation on a fractured left index finger, Stokes has been given the go-ahead by his physician and the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) medical staff to start training. He will go to Australia with the Test specialists and the Lions on November 4.
"Generally, what Ben does is a bit like Virat," the former England skipper stated.
"Playing against a Ganguly side, you knew you were in a battle, you knew that Ganguly understood the passion of Indian cricket fans and it wasn't just a game of cricket."
Hussain also spoke about the prospect of handing over the role permanently to Stokes and stated it might not be a good idea to put further pressure on someone who is already giving the team everything in all three departments of the game.
It was on July 13, 2002 when Ganguly and his young team won the NatWest Trophy final, chasing down a steep target of 326 with three balls to spare.
Nasser Hussain was also all praise for current Indian and England captains Virat Kohli and Eoin Morgan respectively.
