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title: "McCullum praises Fleming as England's new Test coach"
description: "Most outlets highlighted Brendon McCullum's praise for Stephen Fleming as England's new Test coach, noting his comment that Fleming is \"like me, but better.\" The framing was largely consistent across the excerpts, with the emphasis placed on McCullum’s endorsement of his successor. Business Recorder provided additional context about McCullum’s sacking from his previous role, while others did not mention this detail."
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# McCullum praises Fleming as England's new Test coach

sports · latest filing 7 Aug 2026, 7:00 PM PKT · 7 Aug 2026 · 2 articles from 2 outlets

**HarZaviya summary** — how 2 outlets covered this, generated automatically from their headlines and excerpts:

> Most outlets highlighted Brendon McCullum's praise for Stephen Fleming as England's new Test coach, noting his comment that Fleming is "like me, but better." The framing was largely consistent across the excerpts, with the emphasis placed on McCullum’s endorsement of his successor. Business Recorder provided additional context about McCullum’s sacking from his previous role, while others did not mention this detail.

## Same story from 2 outlets

Each outlet's own headline, most recent first — read any at its source.

- **Business Recorder** — [Fleming 'like me, but better': McCullum on new England Test coach](https://www.brecorder.com/news/40433767/fleming-like-me-but-better-mccullum-on-new-england-test-coach) · 7 Aug 2026, 7:00 PM PKT
  > LONDON: Brendon McCullum has hailed his successor Stephen Fleming as “like me, but better”, after England appointed his former New Zealand teammate as Test coach. McCullum was sacked from his role in charge of the red-ball side last month after a woeful Ashes campaign was followed by a 2-1 series loss at home to New Zealand, but he remains in charge of England’s limited-overs teams. England are...
- **ARY News (English)** — [Fleming ‘like me, but better’: McCullum](https://arynews.tv/fleming-like-me-but-better-mccullum) · 7 Aug 2026, 4:49 PM PKT · 82% identical wording to the newest filing

2 articles from 2 outlets, 7 Aug 2026. Headlines and links belong to their outlets — HarZaviya links out and never copies article text.

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