Barney Ronay

I mean, part of that's because he was on the front page of The Sun for punching someone outside a nightclub.

But that did definitely happen.

And we will have really good players, like Jacob Bethel clearly is a really good cricketer, but he's not going to be an English cricket star in the same way.

The game is moving on in so many different strange ways that I don't think there'll be another great...

test star again and once stokes goes that's it i think that's probably one reason why even the ecb would like to hang on to him because he has he has so much energy and magnetism and english cricket the english cricket team is a product it's it doesn't relate to the layers below it you're producing a television product of these people who only exist in that world and yeah this is a low in his arc but it's it's all kind of energy and eyeballs and part of the stokes narrative

I think that is true.

I think both of those men are currently in the best paying, most prominent job they're ever going to have for the rest of their careers.

And if Stokes goes, they stay.

I mean, that's how it works.

They have to deal with this.

If Stokes stays...

what's the point of Rob Key?

What's the point of him trying to run this team?

What's happening?

So I think there is an element of self-interest there.

I think you may be overestimating the master media manipulation skills of Rob Key.

Maybe not.

I mean, maybe this is all an incredible power play, but yeah, I think he goes, they stay is how it works.

I don't know who comes next.

That's really unclear.