ROB: I’M IN MUCH BETTER HEALTH

NEW England cricket supremo Rob Key says he has no lingering health concerns following the ‘kick up the backside’ to sort out his life.

The response of the 42-year-old managing director of men’s cricket to suffering a transient ischaemic attack, or mini stroke, in May 2020 was to give up smoking — something he’d indulged in throughout a playing career that brought him 21 international caps.

Key lost vision for several seconds — ‘from nowhere really’ — after a lockdown session of Xbox with his son. ‘I’ve been fine since. It was a frightening time. You think you’re invincible and then you’re not,’ he said.

‘I stopped smoking, which they say is absolutely the main reason. I was lucky. I had a kick up the backside to sort myself out a bit.’