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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
Ali Martin

Rob Key’s remarkable rise is not just a case of a job for the boys

Rob Key started his new role at the England and Wales Cricket Board on Tuesday.
Rob Key started his new role at the England and Wales Cricket Board on Tuesday. Photograph: Graham Hunt/ProSports/Shutterstock

In between England’s ruinous Ashes campaign and the largely dismal epilogue in the Caribbean last month, a panel of Rob Key, Mike Atherton and Nasser Hussain recorded a podcast for Sky in which they analysed the Test team’s myriad problems and discussed how they would change things.

Key, though supposedly steering the debate as host, was pressed for his views. After detailed responses that have been widely reported over the past few days and which included his belief that player power needs addressing, Atherton joked that the only solution was to take charge of the England set-up himself. “The answer to that is no,” Key replied, amid chuckles from all three.

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