It was a lovely spring morning, sun up and a fresh two-club breeze blowing straight off the English channel. It whipped across the Prince’s Golf Club, a fine and historic links where Gene Sarazen won the Open in 1932 and where, more pertinently for us, Rob Key, the managing director of men’s cricket and one of the architects of England’s recent revival, likes to walk his dog, play some golf and do his thinking.