Kevin Pietersen's demise as England cricket captain, alongside the sacking of coach Peter Moores, highlights the fact that finally - finally - New Zealand Cricket might have done something right.

English cricket's night of the long knives saw Pietersen step down as captain before he was pushed.

His public spat with Moores means that England, not long before its all-important quest to regain the Ashes, look about as menacing as a melted marshmallow.

Yet there are enough parallels between the captain-coach changeover in New Zealand and England cricket to invite comparisons.

Especially with the coaching.

In England, the naked, throbbing ego that is Kevin Pietersen looked at Moores and saw a cricketer who had not scaled anywhere near the heights Pietersen had. This, in the black-and-white contours of Pietersen-land, meant he could not respect the coach, in spite of the fact many international coaches are far, far better coaches than they were players. Star players often do not make good coaches - something true in all sport, although there are always one or two who buck the trend.

Similarly, new Black Caps coach Andy Moles has had minimal international experience as coach or player. Skipper Daniel Vettori, making his way up the list of the most prolific all-rounders in the game, could have been forgiven if he had looked at Moles and wondered about his credentials.

Especially compared to the outgoing John Bracewell, about whom Vettori was moved to say supportive words.

Bracewell had been a test cricketer of note and, regardless of what else could be said about his coaching, was always primed with a competitive fire respected by his team-mates and charges - no matter whether they agreed with him or not.

But Moles appears to have been a good antidote to the loop-de-loop theoretical spaghetti of the Bracewell era and, so far at least, seems to be a sensible man who is sensibly addressing the shortcomings of the team he has inherited.

Time will tell when it comes to assessing what he has brought to the team but, in a recent column, I maintained the Black Caps needed an attitude transplant. On the evidence of recent outings, that seems to be progressing well enough.

Much of that is down to Vettori, who has managed the transition well. Who knows what he really thinks of Bracewell? Or Moles? That is as it should be. Keeping your powder dry is an important part of fostering team unity and man management.