Australia’s chairman of selectors George Bailey has dismissed Justin Langer’s claims {that a} lack of backing from senior gamers and help employees led to the previous opener’s departure because the nationwide workforce head coach.
Langer resigned from the submit on Saturday when he was solely provided a six-month contract extension till October’s T20 World Cup last, regardless of guiding Australia to victory on the T20 World Cup earlier than overseeing a 4-0 drubbing of England within the Ashes.
“I feel for him,” Bailey informed reporters on Tuesday.
“Absolutely nobody deserves to have the saga that has been performed out as publicly because it has been.
“Clearly he didn’t get the length of contract extension offer that he was after so it hasn’t been ideal, but I don’t subscribe to the fact that it was individuals that were key to making the decision.”
After Langer’s resignation, a few of his former teammates have come out in his help and have additionally criticised the present gamers, together with newly-appointed Test skipper Pat Cummins.
Langer was appointed in 2018 within the aftermath of a ball-tampering scandal in South Africa and Bailey praised the previous Australia opener for the type of work he has finished and the outcomes he has achieved with the workforce.
“(Langer) wanted the team to earn respect with Australians and he wanted to develop great cricketers and great people and I think he has absolutely done that,” he mentioned.
“The workforce have finished that, JL has finished that, the employees across the workforce have finished that. The group, the people, all three groups are in a really totally different area the place they’re in the present day to the place they have been 4 years in the past.
“(Langer) absolutely has to take an enormous amount of credit for that and I hope he’s immensely proud of it.”
Meanwhile, former Australia pacer Jason Gillespie has mentioned he isn’t fascinated by changing Langer because the workforce’s head coach.
“I am not putting myself up for any jobs, I’m fully committed to South Australian cricket,” Gillespie, a former Test team-mate of Langer, informed reporters.
“I’ve got a lot of work to do here and I’m absolutely loving it.”
