Hecht astutely persuaded Joseph Cook, who had logged 28 years with Eli Lilly and was chairman of Amylin Pharmaceuticals, to serve as chairman.

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Key, whose side have won just two games this season, has had to turn to his youngsters because of injuries to Simon Cook, Robbie Joseph and Matthew Coles.

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Robbie Joseph and Simon Cook are both out injured while Azhar Mahmood, whose appearances for the county tend to be more or less restricted to one-day games, is also currently ruled out.

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CNN's Neda Farshbaf, Niki Cook, Saskya Vandoorne, Jim Bittermann and Joseph Netto contributed to this report.

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