Key hit 16 fours and two sixes on his home ground on Thursday
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Robert Key says a touring spot in the Ashes squad is "in the back of his mind" after a century against the touring Pakistan side at Canterbury.
Key said: "I took the Kent captaincy to try to help get me back in the England side. My name would be in and around there somewhere and it depends where.
"A good end to the summer and you never know. The selectors are watching."
Key had only passed fifty three times in first-class matches during the first half of the ongoing season.
On Thursday, he hit his first score of three figures and added: "This is definitely a step-up from county level, you have an England shirt on again and it is a good format.
"It was a pretty flat pitch and it was one of those were once you get in it was going to be hard to get out."
Key, recovering from shoulder reconstruction, was handed a life on 30 when wicket-keeper Kamran Akmal fluffed a chance created by Mohammad Asif.
Akmal was clearly impaired by a blow to his left index finger, however, and did not return to the field after lunch, although the damage was not serious.
"He got hit on the end of the finger and has slight bruising in the top joint," said coach Bob Woolmer.
"He has got full movement in it though and we just rested him as a precaution."
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