“Nasser, Atherton, myself - we’d sit around saying they should do this, they should do that. We’re all sort of stubborn and think we’re right. When the chance sort of came, I thought, now, actually I have some skin in the game. We always used to say on there (Sky Sports), we want to find solutions not just backtrade and say that’s rubbish, that’s rubbish, that’s good. Come on then, what’s the solution to these things? Now I’ve got that chance to see.”
This was Rob Key’s response when asked why he wanted to be the ECB’s managing director of men’s cricket. His reasons for risking “a good life” as a commentator earning a strong reputation beyond these shores for a tougher one with great responsibility and greater hassle, essentially stemming from conversation with his mates. That after a series of time-killing hypotheticals, after consistently being goaded by Nasser to “tell us what you’d do then, Keysy”, he figured he should take the opportunity to show us.
