Rob Key appointed as the new managing director of England men's cricket: wants to shape a new era.

His recruitment as the managing director will be immediate, for which he will be resigning from his role at Sky Sports.

After Ashley Giles retired this February after 3 years of holding the position, the position was provisionally held by Andrew Strauss until Rob Key's name was finalized. His role as the managing director would be to strategize men's cricket tournaments for different age groups and also to build a general strategy on how the game in the country should function.

This international cricket player has made a total of 28,000 runs and 60 centuries in his international career of 17 years. He was the captain of Kent and played a total of 21 games for England in different formats (test, ODI, and T-20). In 2004, while playing test cricket against West Indies, Key made double centuries making him a Wisden cricketer of the year (2005). He has been one of the longest-standing Kent captains from the year 2006-to 2012 and then again from 2013-to 2014. As a captain, he took his team thrice to the finals of White Ball Domestic and Kent also won the County Championship Second Division under Key's leadership.

On being asked about how he feels to be the new managing director, Key said, “It is an absolute honor to take up this role. The chance to have an impact and make a difference is an opportunity given to very few and I will give it everything I have to try to shape the next great era of English Men’s cricket. I have absolutely loved my time at Sky and I could never have imagined leaving were it not for this incredible opportunity. I’d like to personally thank Bryan Henderson and everyone in the team for their help and support.”

Key had adopted the role of a commentator at Sky Sports after retiring from the game and loved his job at the channel. Although he retired from playing the game, he still stayed closely knitted with the cricket family. He wrote a column for Evening Standard and also sat on the ECB Performance Committee to perform certain administrative functions. Key admits that this is an extremely rare opportunity and he feels blessed and lucky to have this opportunity. Key believes that he will make well use of this opportunity and will try to build a new great era of the game in England.