Rob Key
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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We have all our analytics.
We have the iHawk system that covers every ball is tracked.
We then have our line selection.
We have our squad selection.
Ed Barney and David Court are in every single part of that, which people also don't understand.
But what we're going to add in as well is that we're going to have a – and again, you've sort of done me for calling things management speak.
We're going to have like a county insight group.
which we're going to run a process and we're going to try and pick a couple of people out of the coaches or directors of cricket or people involved in the second division and two from the first division.
So that group will meet four or five times a year.
And with no selector at the moment, that becomes quite an important group because the start of the summer in this cycle, as I said...
We were very keen to make sure we had a settled team going into the India series and the Ashes, whereas now there's opportunity for people.
So we're going to need to use that group to make sure we're getting as much information as possible about the potential...
potential players that we might pick, the players that actually can show they can score runs against the best bowlers, but also be relentless and go and score big runs.
So that's one way we're going to try and do it.
And there's various things.
The truth is, I think with some directors of cricket, we have a very good relationship with, and some maybe nowhere near as good.
There's some that would have a lot of players that have been in our system.
So you end up spending a bit more time with them, but we're going to try and find a way to...
to make sure they know exactly what England's about.
I've always been aware that actually what we've tried to do, we've tried to be brave with selection.