There were plenty of lowlights from Rob Key’s media round this week as he attempted to gather up the Ashes debris and present it as coherent thought. A personal favourite was his awkward interview on BBC’s Test Match Special, during which Mark Chapman accused him of “management speak”, and after which Sir Alastair Cook called the entire conversation “weird” as soon as Key hung up the phone.
His interview with Nasser Hussain and Michael Atherton on Sky Sports wasn’t any more comfortable. Asked exactly what his leadership team had learnt from the Ashes, Key replied: “You go through to the point where, you know, you get to the end of the Ashes and you’ve already started to have a document you feel… or learnings, as it were, as much as anything else.” In fairness, that wasn’t management speak. It was barely even speak.
