Vaughan: Key & McCullum lucky to survive Ashes review
Test Match Special
BBC
4.4 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 23 March 2026
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Mark Chapman, Michael Vaughan, Sir Alastair Cook and cricket correspondent Stephan Shemilt are joined by Managing Director of England Men's Cricket Rob Key, who explains England's review into their 4-1 Ashes defeat. The panel talk through mistakes made in Australia, both in the planning and during the series, and why there won't be wholesale changes as a result.
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00:00 Intro 00:30 The review into English Cricket 02:00 Key management stay 06:00 Managing director Rob Key 08:00 What changes? 13:40 Lessons learnt from the Ashes 16:40 Style of play 22:30 What will look different this summer? 25:52 The connection with County Cricket 30:08 Have management been swayed by the coach? 33:14 Is the setup a clique or cult? 38:40 Opinions on the review 44:27 Should have everyone kept their jobs? 48:23 County Cricket
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| 0:36.4 | Joining us for this episode, cricket correspondent Stefan Schemelt, |
| 0:39.8 | former England captains Michael Vaughan and Sir Alaster Cook, |
| 0:42.6 | and will also be joined by the managing director of England men's cricket Rob Key. |
| 0:47.8 | We've got a lot to get through, particularly with what's been announced. |
| 0:51.8 | No changes of personnel, Rob Key, Brendan McCullough and Ben Stokes, all remaining in place. |
| 0:57.3 | Do you want to go through, Stefan, some of the other things that you have read and watched? |
| 1:02.9 | Yeah, it's a tradition, isn't it, now, for cricket administrators to gather at Lords every four years |
| 1:08.5 | to sort of tell us where an England Ashes tour has gone wrong. |
| 1:12.4 | I think anyone who's expecting, I don't know, white smoke going over the pavilion or a big |
| 1:17.0 | document to land on the table today was going to be disappointed because it wasn't that sort of |
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