Rob Key
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Nov 2, 2026
Chris WoakesGUEST
anything like that? The obvious one was, I suppose, around retirement and sort of things.
Chris WoakesGUEST
I'd been having really good conversations with Rob Key about, you know, first and foremost, selection for Australia.
Chris WoakesGUEST
Obviously, my shoulder at the time was in a sling and it was looking unlikely.
Chris WoakesGUEST
And he was, you know, pretty... clear at the beginning by saying you know we're going to have to see where your shoulder's at and and then was after as it was getting closer to selection was kind of so you know probably not going to take you to to Australia and then on the back of that wasn't going to get a new a new central contract.
Adam PeacockHOST
He's got retired when he rocked up.
Adam PeacockHOST
And the story was that when he went and had a chat with Brendan McCullum, and I think it was Rob Key at the time, meet up in a Manchester hotel on his way to a game, watching a game of soccer and thought, oh yeah, we're talking about the next 12 months.
Adam PeacockHOST
He was told, we're not going to select you anymore.
Adam PeacockHOST
Thanks very much.
Michael AthertonHOST
the merits of it either way.
Michael AthertonHOST
But when somebody like Fabrice comes in as director of cricket or in England's case, Rob Key, when they've decided to move on, how do you do that? And in both instances, they called Jimmy Anderson in and told him face to face that, So, you know, Brendan McCullum flew over from New Zealand, Rob Key and Brendan and Ben Stokes drove from different ends of the country to meet Jimmy Anderson in Manchester and tell him.
Michael AthertonHOST
That was face to face.
Michael AthertonHOST
It wasn't done behind his back.
Felix WhiteHOST
know what the best thing is? I won't even have to rewrite it.
Felix WhiteHOST
I can just take out Rob Key and put Paul Farbrace in and we can have a chapter.
Felix WhiteHOST
has it given you the hunger to now play another? Because knowing you, like I think I know you, that would give you the incentive to be like, do you know what? I think I might have another, at least a season in me.
Felix WhiteHOST
Because I'm sure probably at least I can imagine quite a lot of counties have been in touch.
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Greg JamesHOST
Keyboard.
Greg JamesHOST
Yeah.
Greg JamesHOST
Rob Keyboard's quite good.
Greg JamesHOST
Colin Broadbland or Colin Blandwit.
Jos ButtlerHOST
i think i might have a few people have said this and i don't take offense now i've just got a resting bitch face you know it doesn't that people don't want to you think i'm angry but now now i know i'll um i'll be very talkative the next time we're in the middle together maybe
Stuart BroadHOST
rob key was right you did just need to practice your smiling
Jos ButtlerHOST
practice my smiling he also told me to wear sunglasses so you can't see how angry my eyes look but um that was nothing to do with you now But big winter head, great summer, but big winter head.
Jos ButtlerHOST
So you're in the squad, five T20s out in Australia following that.
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Stuart BroadHOST
It's not up to you to... have a public opinion on that because that would be wrong.
Stuart BroadHOST
You know, you're trying to win trophies for Lancashire ultimately.
Stuart BroadHOST
But I just, I feel for Jimmy because the Test career sort of got ended by Rob Key and McCullum before, sort of a bit of a shock to Jimmy for sure and done in a pretty poor way before Jimmy was off to watch Man United, Burnley, meet for a coffee, handshake, thanks, and leaked before he could even, you know, tell people he wanted to tell.
Stuart BroadHOST
And then this again, it just doesn't sit that comfortably for me, and I think he deserves more.
Steve HarmisonHOST
And this is the thing, and I'm not venting it because of getting beat twice, but you've got to be careful.
Steve HarmisonHOST
And I don't know whether it's a message to Rob Key, to the hierarchy, but at the end of the day, if you're going to sign an all-singing, all-dancing coaching team and they're not going to be there, there's no point having them.
Steve HarmisonHOST
If Kevin Peterson is the best England mentor that you think he can give a huge amount, it's brilliant if he's all in.
Steve HarmisonHOST
Kim Southey, if they're all in.
DarrenHOST
He remains third on the all-time list with 704, a record for a pace bowler that is unlikely to be broken.
DarrenHOST
And later that year, Anderson was asked to call time on his international career by England's then hierarchy of coach Brendan McCullum, captain Ben Stokes and director of cricket Rob Key.
DarrenHOST
He played his 188th and final Test against the West Indies at Lourdes before embarking on a short spell as England's bowling consultant.
DarrenHOST
In 2025, Anderson signed a new deal with Lancashire and suggested he could play county cricket for three more years.
Charu SharmaHOST
And because you've been asking for local coaches, then one is forced to be that much more supportive, even if things are not going well.
Jim MaxwellHOST
So, Ali, what about the back room? What are we going to do in terms of that? How important is it as far as the set-up with Rob Key as the overlord, of course?
Alison MitchellHOST
Well, this seems to be really much driven by Stephen Fleming.
Alison MitchellHOST
And this is a big part of what he said about, you know, the team should be coached by an English coach going forward.
Steve HarmisonHOST
Put him back into county cricket when it's right to put him back in county cricket.
Steve HarmisonHOST
If Rob Key and Marcus North, McCollum and Fleming feel as though Thomas Roo is going to be the next big superstar, like what Jacob Bethel was, then I've got no problem with that.
Steve HarmisonHOST
Not only has he got talent, he's also shown great cricket smartness.
Steve HarmisonHOST
He understands the game so well for such a young lad.
Syd EganHOST
know, that's how we ended up.
Syd EganHOST
I mean, it's not even as if it's been successful, right? The whole Rob Key era in men's test cricket to leap into the men's game.
Syd EganHOST
guys it hasn't actually been wildly successful has it so you know getting your mates in didn't
Raf NicholsonHOST
even work jobs for the boys hasn't gone massively well I think for me yeah as you say it's very disappointing what the ECB have essentially done is kind of gone well we're fed up of being called out on it we're fed up of the media picking up on when we aren't using the Rooney rule And we know that we're using it really inconsistently.
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