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Rob Key

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
611 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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Sky Sports Cricket Podcast
England's post-Ashes review: Rob Key talks learnings, mistakes and building bridges

I think that is a massive credit to this setup that Brendan McCullum has created.

Sky Sports Cricket Podcast
England's post-Ashes review: Rob Key talks learnings, mistakes and building bridges

They're the good part.

Sky Sports Cricket Podcast
England's post-Ashes review: Rob Key talks learnings, mistakes and building bridges

So, you know, it's trying to find that bit in the middle.

Sky Sports Cricket Podcast
England's post-Ashes review: Rob Key talks learnings, mistakes and building bridges

No, I think it depends on what you mean by change.

Sky Sports Cricket Podcast
England's post-Ashes review: Rob Key talks learnings, mistakes and building bridges

If you want Brendan McCullum to become a completely different coach or do everything in a completely different way, of course, we don't want him to do that.

Sky Sports Cricket Podcast
England's post-Ashes review: Rob Key talks learnings, mistakes and building bridges

You may as well employ a different coach.

Sky Sports Cricket Podcast
England's post-Ashes review: Rob Key talks learnings, mistakes and building bridges

What you want is someone like, oh, and Brendan McCullum, as you know, is a very good player.

Sky Sports Cricket Podcast
England's post-Ashes review: Rob Key talks learnings, mistakes and building bridges

And good players don't get to that position by not evolving, not adapting.

Sky Sports Cricket Podcast
England's post-Ashes review: Rob Key talks learnings, mistakes and building bridges

And that's what we want him to do.

Sky Sports Cricket Podcast
England's post-Ashes review: Rob Key talks learnings, mistakes and building bridges

And that's what, when you look at the way the team played out in Sri Lanka, I thought they did that.

Sky Sports Cricket Podcast
England's post-Ashes review: Rob Key talks learnings, mistakes and building bridges

All this basketball stuff about only one way of playing is,

Sky Sports Cricket Podcast
England's post-Ashes review: Rob Key talks learnings, mistakes and building bridges

You try and play like that out in Sri Lanka on those spinning pitches.

Sky Sports Cricket Podcast
England's post-Ashes review: Rob Key talks learnings, mistakes and building bridges

You cannot do that.

Sky Sports Cricket Podcast
England's post-Ashes review: Rob Key talks learnings, mistakes and building bridges

You look at the way that we went from the Champions Trophy where we were all outpaced.

Sky Sports Cricket Podcast
England's post-Ashes review: Rob Key talks learnings, mistakes and building bridges

We thought that was the way.

Sky Sports Cricket Podcast
England's post-Ashes review: Rob Key talks learnings, mistakes and building bridges

And then we went for spin.

Sky Sports Cricket Podcast
England's post-Ashes review: Rob Key talks learnings, mistakes and building bridges

You went to the likes of Liam Dawson, all these people that had done well in county cricket to come and try and come up with a different style of playing, a different way to adapt to those conditions.

Sky Sports Cricket Podcast
England's post-Ashes review: Rob Key talks learnings, mistakes and building bridges

That's where you evolve it, really.

Sky Sports Cricket Podcast
England's post-Ashes review: Rob Key talks learnings, mistakes and building bridges

I don't want him to become a different coach.

Sky Sports Cricket Podcast
England's post-Ashes review: Rob Key talks learnings, mistakes and building bridges

I just want us to become a better side than what we've been, to evolve into a team that is.