Justin Langer reacts to Steve Smith’s captaincy ambitions: ‘No position available’

After Steve Smith revealed that he’s prepared for one more stint at captaining Australia, head coach Justin Langer has responded and stated that the senior nationwide staff is in good palms and there’s no captaincy place out there within the close to future.
“We have two very good captains and two important competitions coming up – an Ashes and a T20 World Cup. Our future looks good,” Langer advised ABC.
“Despite the media chatter there is no captaincy position available,” he added.
Smith, among the best up to date batsmen within the modern-day cricket, was suspended from worldwide cricket for one yr and banned from management roles for 2 years for his position within the “sandpaper-gate” scandal in Cape Town in March 2018.
After Smith’s ban, Tim Paine took over the reins of Australia’s Test facet whereas Aaron Finch was handed the captaincy of the white-ball codecs.
On Monday, he had lastly damaged silence on his captaincy ambitions, when advised News Corp, “I guess now I’ve got to a point where if the opportunity did come up again I would be keen.”
“If it was what Cricket Australia wanted and it was what was best for the team at the time, it’s certainly something I would be interested in.”
Smith will probably be in motion in IPL 2021 the place he’ll ply his commerce for Delhi Capitals.