Fair for Cricket Australia to assessment Justin Langer’s efficiency: Pat Cummins
Australia Test captain Pat Cummins feels his nation’s cricket board is doing the precise factor by evaluating head coach Justin Langer’s efficiency earlier than deciding on his contract extension as gamers too undergo the identical course of at common intervals.
Langer, beneath whose tutelage Australia hammered England within the Ashes and likewise gained the T20 World Cup for the primary time final 12 months, has been in service for the previous 4 years. Cricket Australia shall be contemplating a contract extension for him on Friday.
Cummins insisted that he loved working with Langer but it surely was solely “fair” that the coach goes by an “evaluation process”.
“It’s in Cricket Australia’s hands,” Cummins was quoted as saying by the ‘Sydney Morning Herald’.
Cummins mentioned hypothesis surrounding Langer’s job was not wholesome and he didn’t need to add to it.
“JL’s been doing a unbelievable job, he’s been there for 4 years, his contract is clearly up quickly, they’re simply going by an analysis course of in the mean time, which I believe is honest, the precise factor to do.
“We all get evaluated on a regular basis as cricketers. It’s a part of a high-performance surroundings. That course of is going on, it’s a call for Cricket Australia and we simply have to attend.
“That’s Cricket Australia’s job, it’s not my job. I’ve really loved my time working with JL,” mentioned Cummins.
While former teammates like Matthew Hayden, Shane Warne and Adam Gilchrist have come out in help of Langer’s contract extension, there was media hypothesis about resentment in direction of him amongst present gamers, though nobody has overtly criticised the coach.