To help make this website better, to improve and personalize your experience and for advertising purposes, are you happy to accept cookies and other technologies. Few will remember that Key contributed an unbeaten 10 but many will recall that the hosts lost to Netherlands. In April 2016, Key announced his retirement from all forms of cricket.He attended Worsley Bridge Primary School where the school won both the Bromley area and Kent cricket Cups. The Virtual Test Match between Nasser Hussain and Rob Key appeared to take a decisive swing on the third day as the Hussain XI, picked predominantly from players of … A career tends to need to end before the epithet "legend" can be appended to it, but in Kent at least Rob Key has already earned it. A. With the county failing to win Championship promotion and their former England batsman struggling to find top form, a change was perhaps best for all concerned, but now he's back at the helm again. His captaincy successor James Tredwell then awakened interest from England, leaving Key to take charge once more - 2015 was to be his ninth season at the helm. Robert Key Latest News, Photos, Biography, Stats, Batting averages, bowling averages, test & one day records, videos and wallpapers at CricketCountry.com. He remained a regular in the second team throughout the 1996 season and first half of the 1997 season, by which time he had hit his first two centuries for a Kent representative side; an unbeaten 146 against Essex's second team, and an unbeaten 139 against Glamorgan's seconds.
But in 2004, he burst back into the limelight, scoring 1000 first-class runs by the second day of June, and cracking a magnificent 221 against West Indies at Lord's, in his first Test appearance for over a year.The jury, however, was still out after a hit-and-miss winter in South Africa in 2004-05, when his culpable shot-selection in defeat at Cape Town was offset by an important half-century in the series-clinching victory at Johannesburg.
Cherry-cheeked Key had been marked down for great things - not least by headline-writers spotting an easy pun a mile off - since he helped England to win the Under-19 World Cup in South Africa early in 1998.
Never the sleekest, Key's waistline expanded along with his burgeoning batting reputation, and he was 16 stone and counting before Alec Stewart had a quiet word. Despite playing well in a Brought back into the side for the second Test for the injured Key fared better in the third match, played at the Key returned to the Test match side after an excellent start to the Key's series began with the fifth match of the tournament; against the West Indies at Key's performances in the series and his domestic form earned him recognition—he was named as one of the five Following on from his performances during the series against the West Indies, Key was taken on England's tour of South Africa over the English close-season. His performances led to his inclusion in the county under-elevens, before Key has often been criticized for his weight, and at one stage early in his career weighed 16 Key is married to Fleur, with whom he has a daughter, Aaliyah, and a son, Harrison.Following on from those performances, Key joined the England Under-17 squad for the International Youth Tournament, which was being held in Key returned to England for two matches with Kent's second team, before joining up with Following the winter international series in South Africa, Key returned to domestic action with Kent. Key, R W T - Test Cricket, profile, statistical overview, batting graphs, bowling graphs, performances by ground, performances by opponent, performances by year, performances by series, performances by batting position, analysis of dismissals, list of innings, partnership records, man of match awards Key made his Test match debut in the second Test against After success in domestic cricket and promise shown in his Test appearances previously, Key was selected as part of the squad to play Australia. On day one of Thursday’s fixture, Virender Sehwag led the way for Key’s team with an innings of 88, which flew in the face of his previous Test average of just 27.80 in England. Mat Inns Balls Runs ... 2/31: 2/31: 110.33: 4.10: 161.3: 0: 0: 0: List A: 225-----T20s: 98-----Career statistics. He encapsulated his approach to fitness on a questionnaire on the Kent website: in answer to the question 'Most likely to?' His trademark shot was a back-foot biff through the covers, while his off-drive on the front foot pleases the purists too. Key came back even leaner and hungrier, and more runs propelled him past Ian Bell - previously touted as the Next Big Thing - into the England side after Marcus Trescothick's broken thumb and Graham Thorpe's broken marriage created a vacancy or two.