ECB director Rob Key has been disappointed with England recent performance in Champions Trophy where they couldn't able to a single match.England had found themselves back to the conceptunal era before 2015 despite having talented players in their squard. It was the man Eion Morgan and his co supporter Ben Stokes who just reshaped the England cricket after an early exit from 2015 ODI World Cup.

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Where Morgan inspired that we are still playing old fashioned cricket where it has developed a lot, we have to change our thinking and to be more aggressive. And they just revamped their brand of cricket which suited and helped them too. That resulted them to win their first ODI World Cup title in 2019. But after that when their formiddble players retired everything changed drastically. 

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Key has highlighted that bringing back Ben Stokes will be an ideal solution for this and can be named as Captain for the team who can groom these players with his experience. He brings that quality and value to the team. The team needs some inspiration. After a poor outing in Champions Trophy their captain Jos Butler has resigned from captaincy. He tented and thanked the managment for the opportunity. Now after him there are several names aroused but Key is more worried about the quality, because captaincy comes with a added pressure. 

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Stokes is considered as inspiration in England who played a major role in truimph of two world titles. Players like Stokes are generational, Stokes left the limited overs cricket after 2023 World Cup.  Though he hinted to revoke back the retirement and to be available in Champions Trophy but a sudden Hamstring injury during the New Zealand test series had penetrated him to do so. Stokes after his limited overs retirement has fully focused on test format. 

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Former New Zealand player and explosive batsman Brenden Mccllum was appointed for England test team coach and combination of Bazzball has been surreal which revamped the English test cricket too. Which was tried in ODI too after a successful test regime Mccllum was handed over the ODI coaching too, here it has bit different for him and couldn't able to produce the desired results despite having world class players. 

11 out of 10 matches Mccllum has lost which includes the recent India series. Its been an idea to bring back Ben to calm the guys and to show them the path how it has to handle the pressure in most difficult times.