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  • ‘When I knew he was talking to Steve, it was red flags for me’: Justin Langer on discovering out Steve Waugh counselled Ajinkya Rahane throughout 2020-21 BGT Trophy

    Former Australia coach Justin Langer revealed that Steve Waugh counselled India batter Ajinkya Rahnae forward of the 2020-21 Border-Gavaskar Trophy.

    While commentating on the third day of the India vs. Australia World Test Championship closing for Star Sports, Langer described how he felt when Steve Waugh referred to as to inform him that he had been teaching Rahane.

    “Before the series started Steve Waugh, my hero, he rang me and said I was going to be transparent. I wanna be honest I’m having some conversations with Rahane…doing a bit of mentoring him leading to that series,” Langer stated on air.

    “Not Steve Waugh, the iceman and we saw that calmness in Rahane, we saw the way he played in that series and when I knew he was talking to Steve, it was red flags for me,” he added.

    On Day 3, Rahane, batting at 71*, reached 5000 Test runs. This is his highest Test rating since he scored 112 on the MCG again in December 2020.

    Earlier, India misplaced KS Bharat on the second ball of the day.

    On day 2, India’s batting efficiency was disastrous as skipper Rohit Sharma and Shubman Gill had been rapidly dismissed.

    Adding to their distress, Cheteshwar Pujara and Virat Kohli had been gone after low cost dismissals. Despite being below stress, seasoned all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja performed a unbelievable innings. 48 runs had been scored in 51 deliveries by the 34-year-old.

  • A kick within the face to supply Justin Langer a six-month contract: David Warner hits out at Cricket Australia

    David Warner has lashed out at Cricket Australia for providing former coach Justin Langer only a six-month extension after the top of his preliminary four-year tenure. Langer determined to resign from the job after rejecting the provide by CA final summer season.

    New Delhi,UPDATED: Jan 10, 2023 12:23 IST

    Warner admitted that Langer did lose the assist of some gamers (Courtesy: Reuters)

    By India Today Web Desk: David Warner has hit out in opposition to Cricket Australia for providing former Australia coach Justin Langer only a six-month contract, saying that it was like a kick within the face.

    The buildup to Langer’s exit from the position as coach and the fallout is a focus of the second season of The Test documentary, which might be launched on Friday on Amazon Prime.

    The former opener’s departure on the finish of final summer season got here after Cricket Australia took into consideration the issues over the coach’s depth on the finish of his preliminary four-year tenure. CA would then go onto provide Langer a six-month contract with no scope of an extension. The former cricketer would promptly reject the provide and subsequently resigned from the job.

    Speaking within the documentary, as quoted by Cricinfo, Warner stated that Langer needed to maintain teaching and the six-month contract was little bit of a kick within the face.

    The opener would then go onto admit that the previous coach did lose the assist of some gamers.

    “He wanted to keep coaching. It was a bit of a kick in the face to offer him a six-month contract,” Warner stated within the documentary.

    “He lost a fair few players, and probably the wrong players.”

    Langer has since gone on to speak in regards to the scenario and stated that he hated the truth that members of the crew would go behind his again and complain about his intense teaching methods.

    “Everyone was being good to my face, however I used to be studying about these things and half of it, I swear to God and on my children’ lives, I couldn’t consider that’s what was making the papers. A variety of journalists use the phrase ‘supply’. I might say, change that phrase to ‘coward’,” Langer was quoted as saying to News Corp media.

    “Because what do you mean ‘a source says’? They’ve either got an axe to grind with someone and they won’t come and say it to your face, or they’re just leaking stuff for their own agenda. I hate that,” he said.

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  • ‘No cowards’ in Australia group, says captain Pat Cummins

    Captain Pat Cummins mentioned on Tuesday there are “no cowards” within the Australia cricket group and that the gamers had not been distracted by former head coach Justin Langer’s inflammatory feedback.

    Langer reopened previous wounds over his acrimonious resignation in a podcast interview launched final week, lashing out at unnamed “cowards” within the group who complained within the media about his intense teaching fashion final 12 months.

    He later denied experiences of a rift with Cummins and the group, saying he was in common contact with the vast majority of them.

    “There’s no cowards in an Australian cricket team, not ever,” Cummins instructed reporters forward of their two-test sequence towards West Indies, which begins in Perth on Wednesday.

    “I feel it’s disappointing generally the main focus will get drawn to off-field points however it hasn’t actually affected our group. I feel there’s no ailing will to what he was attempting to do and he clarified (his feedback) afterwards.

    “I think he had a think about it and clarified it, so thank him for that. But we’re really proud of the last 12 months, how we’ve fronted up, the way we’ve played, the way we’ve conducted ourselves. Players can certainly hold their heads high.”

    Cummins added that it could be good to see Langer once more throughout the check, with the previous coach set to be a part of the Seven Network’s commentary group.

    Cummins additionally named the line-up to face West Indies, with Scott Boland and Marcus Harris lacking out whereas Cameron Green was picked to play his first check in his dwelling metropolis of Perth.

    “You could probably have picked the side 12 months ago, I feel like we are in a good spot,” Cummins mentioned.

  • Justin Langer blames politics inside Cricket Australia for his exit as males’s group coach

    Justin Langer guided Australia to the T20 World Cup 2021 and the latest Ashes glory. Following his exit, Cricket Australia appointed Andrew McDonald as the brand new head coach.

    Justin Langer throughout an interplay with the media. (Courtesy: Reuters)

    HIGHLIGHTSJustin Langer helped Australia win the T20 World Cup 2021Justin Langer additionally guided Australia to the latest Ashes gloryAustralian board appointed Andrew McDonald as the brand new head coach

    Justin Langer opened up about his resignation as Australia males’s group coach, saying the politics inside Cricket Australia led to his messy exit.

    In February 2022, Langer, who guided Australia to T20 World Cup 2021 and up to date Ashes glory, rejected a short-term extension and stop his job.

    The 51-year-old claimed {that a} breakdown of relationship with numerous Australian gamers contributed in the direction of his resignation. Langer’s former teammates and nice Australian gamers, together with Adam Gilchrist, Ricky Ponting, Steve Waugh, Matthew Hayden, Mark Waugh and the late Shane Warne, got here out in assist of him and identified the mistreatment by Cricket Australia.

    While recalling his dialog with the then interim chief Richard Freudenstein the day after he stop as Australia coach, Langer informed cricket.com.au, “The first thing he said to me was, ‘It must make you feel so good that all your mates are supporting you in the media.’”

    “I said, ‘Yeah it is, acting chairman, but with all due respect, those mates are also the all-time greats of Australian cricket. They are the fabric of Australian cricket. They are Australian cricket. They also work all around the world in cricket. So yeah, I’m glad my mates are looking after me. Imagine if you had had’.

    Langer further termed his last six months in the role as the “most pleasurable interval of 12 years of teaching”.

    “Not solely did we win every part, however I had power, and I had focus, and I used to be glad apart from the bulls*** politics,” he added.

    The Australian cricket board then appointed Andrew McDonald as the brand new head coach, with Daniel Vettori and Andre Borovec becoming a member of Michael Di Venuto because the assistant coaches.

  • Managing workload is essential: Andrew McDonald wanting ahead to strenous months forward as full time coach

    After a profitable tenure because the interim head coach of the Australian males’s crew, Andrew McDonald has been appointed as the pinnacle coach within the run-up to the ICC T20 World Cup. McDonald, who took over after Justin Langer’s shock resignation in February is properly travelled and has helped the Kangaroos clinch their first sequence in Asia in 11 years.

    The 40-year-old had been serving as an assistant to Langer since 2019 and proved his credentials within the sequence towards Pakistan the place Australia beat the chances of lifeless pitches to win the Test sequence 1-0. Under McDonald’s tutelage, Australia gained two out of the three codecs to ascertain themselves as a robust multi-format contender within the run-up to a really busy season within the subsequent two years.

    Speaking in regards to the appointment, the previous allrounder mentioned that his focus might be on managing the workload in his four-year contract..

    “The great challenge for coaches and players is to manage your workload across the four years,” McDonald was quoted as saying by Cricket Australia on Wednesday.

    He put the onus on the present coaches and the administration that they will step-up at any time when essential to sort out the distinctive circumstances handed to them the world over.

    “I’d like to think I have the coaching staff to step-up, and we can elevate certain coaches at different times to take on different tours and different challenges.

    “While doing that it is solely rising the depth of our teaching staffcoaches will get uncovered alongside the journey to assist out the workload which is kind of vital for a head coach.”

    The Australian head coach drama took an ugly turn around India’s historic win Down Under when reports flew about the souring relationship of Justin Langer with key members of the leadership group.

    Langer’s shock announcement after winning the Ashes series forced Cricket Australia’s hand, and with the T20 World Cup and ODI World Cup scheduled in the next two years, they did not waste much time in making their plans final.

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    Cricket Australia chief executive Nick Hockley sounded elated after the announcement called Mcdonald’s approach ‘impressive’ and ‘exciting’, two words that have become rare in Australian management in the recent past.

    “Andrew has already proven he’s an excellent head coach and the imaginative and prescient he outlined for the position throughout the appointment course of was each spectacular and thrilling, making him our clear selection.

    “We are proud of the way the team played and the respect shown throughout the tour of Pakistan under the leadership of Andrew, Pat (Cummins) and Aaron (Finch) and really pleased Andrew is taking on the role permanently.”

    McDonald might be key for the boys’s crew as they start their preparations to defend the T20 World Cup. Before that, the crew will head to Sri Lanka for a 5-ODI and a 2-match Test sequence the place they may look to fine-tune the white ball squad and strengthen their place within the World Test Championship factors desk.

  • Bailey dismisses claims that lack of help from senior gamers led to Langer’s departure

    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.”

  • 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.

  • Justin Langer inducted into Australian cricket Hall of Fame, Raelee Thompson too honoured

    Former opener and head coach of the senior males’s aspect, Justin Langer has been inducted into the Australian Cricket Hall of Fame alongside Raelee Thompson, one of many pioneers of the ladies’s sport within the nation.
    During his profitable profession as a participant, Langer had shaped a formidable pairing with Matthew Hayden in Test cricket, taking part in a key function in Australia’s dominance within the early and mid 2000s.

    Former quick bowler Thompson, 76, captained the Australian staff on 4 events.
    Thompson and Langer change into the 58th and 59th inductees respectively, because the Australian Cricket Hall of Fame was established in 1996.
    Langer took up teaching after his retirement from worldwide cricket and following profitable stints at Western Australian and Perth Scorchers, Langer was appointed coach of the Australian males’s cricket staff in May 2018, and led them to the ICC 2021 T20 World Cup title and helped the staff retain the Ashes in 2019 and 2021-2022.
    “Justin’s contribution to Australian cricket spans across four separate decades,” Australian Cricket Hall of Fame Chairman Peter King mentioned.

    The 58th inductee into the Australian Cricket Hall of Fame!
    Congratulations, Justin Langer 👏 #AusCricketAwards pic.twitter.com/w8BroIBw3M
    — Cricket Australia (@CricketAus) January 27, 2022
    “First as a player, as part of one of the most successful teams that world cricket has ever seen. As a coach, he entered the role at a time of great need and leads the Australian Men’s Cricket Team with great distinction, a team which the Australian public is very proud of.”
    The duo of Langer and Hyaden amassed 6,081 runs collectively from 122 Test innings at a mean of 51.53, together with 14 century partnerships.
    The gritty Langer made his Test debut towards the West Indies on the Adelaide Oval in 1993 with a gritty 54, an innings throughout which he was hit on the helmet by an Ian Bishop supply.
    The 51-year-old Langer completed his profession with 7696 runs at a mean of 45.27.
    He additionally performed in eight One Day Internationals in a profession spanning 18 years and performed first-class cricket for Western Australia, Middlesex and Somerset, scoring 28,382 runs at a mean of fifty.23.
    However, Langer spent the primary years of his Test profession at No. 3, which included his well-known match-winning partnership with Adam Gilchrist to chase down 369 towards Pakistan in Hobart in 1999.
    Thompson, hailing from Shepparton in Victoria, performed 16 Tests and 23 One Day Internationals for Australia between 1972 and 1985.

    Thompson stays the oldest participant – male or feminine – to take a maiden five-wicket haul in Test matches at 39 years and 175 days of age.
    About Thompson, King mentioned, “Raelee is equally a deserved induction, given her excellent contribution to the sport at a time the place there was little fanfare on the elite degree.
    “She is no doubt one of our great pioneering female cricketers and represented the Baggy Green with such distinction – she is a worthy recipient of this recognition.”
    Todd Greenberg, the CEO of Australian Cricketers’ Association and a member of the choice panel for the Hall of Fame, added,” Raelee is an envoy and decoration to the ladies’s sport and was a part of a staff of trailblazing girls – together with 4 video games as captain – who will be credited for the success that the current-day Australian girls’s cricket staff enjoys.
    Thompson took 57 Test wickets at a mean of 18.24 and 24 One-Day International wickets at 18.66. She additionally represented Victoria on 45 events earlier than serving as a selector for a few years.
    “Raelee’s dedication to the betterment of ladies’s cricket in any respect ranges by way of mentoring and administration roles is inspiring.
    “To this day she remains a prominent figure in cricket, particularly at Essendon Maribyrnong Park Ladies Cricket Club where she is a Life Member. She is hugely deserving of her induction,” Greenberg mentioned.

  • “Never edgy”, Justin Langer prepared for contract extension talks with Cricket Australia

    “Content” after guiding Australia to its maiden T20 World Cup title and a dominant Ashes victory, head coach Justin Langer is trying ahead to the approaching contract dialogue with the nation’s cricket board which has been topic to plenty of speculations.
    Langer was appointed head coach within the aftermath of the ball-tampering scandal in 2018 to overtake the group’s tradition and regain the respect of the Australian public. His contract is because of finish in June.
    “I’m never edgy (about his future),” Langer instructed ‘SEN Radio’ on Wednesday. “Before the World Cup and before the Ashes, we’ve never ever been better prepared. So it’s not a coincidence I don’t think that we’ve had the success that we’ve had,” he mentioned.

    Langer confronted criticism for his teaching strategies from the gamers however up to now 4 months, he has guided Australia to a maiden Twenty20 World Cup title and a 4-0 Ashes collection victory.
    “Whatever happens from now on, we can all be incredibly proud of this little period. We had two missions: To win the World Cup and to win the Ashes,” he mentioned. “To do that in such a short period is a monumental effort and we’re all really satisfied with that, we’re all really happy about that, we’re all really, really proud of that.”
    Langer says he feels “really content” about Australia’s latest achievements. “I sit here at the moment feeling really content with the last two series,” Langer mentioned.
    The former Test opener’s job had been underneath the scanner since Australia’s disappointing loss to India in Tests final yr however he was backed by Cricket Australia (CA) chief government officer Nick Hockley. There had been additionally experiences of a rift between the gamers and Langer and all discuss of a contract extension was placed on maintain by CA till after the Ashes collection.
    “People don’t seem to believe this, but the absolute truth is before the World Cup and the Ashes, we all committed to the end of the Ashes to sit down and have some conversations,” he mentioned. “It’s been 4 actually huge years and it’s an all-encompassing job and it’s a tricky gig…that’s simply the reality.
    “We all said that we’d sit down after the Ashes. So in the next little bit, I’m sure those conversations will start to be had. There’s plenty to be spoken about,” Langer added. Last month, the 51-year-old had hinted that he would search an extension to his four-year contract.

    Australian greats Ricky Ponting, Steve Waugh, Shane Warne and Adam Gilchrist have backed Langer to proceed, whereas his predecessor Darren Lehmann, who stepped down after the ball tampering episode, has urged his former teammate to stroll away on a excessive.
    “I can’t see how he’s not (offered another contract),” Ponting instructed cricket.com.au. ” I do know there was a little bit of noise created the final couple of weeks and Cricket Australia giving no assurances to him persevering with on.
    “The way that I would equate it is if Justin is not to be offered another deal on the back of the best coaching year of his life, that’s like (Ashes player of the series) Travis Head not getting offered a contract next year,” the previous skipper added.
    Langer will oversee Australia’s upcoming tour of Pakistan with three Tests, three ODIs and a T20I slated throughout March and early April.

  • Nick Hockley refuses to commit on Justin Langer’s future as head coach

    Australia’s latest success however, head coach Justin Langer should wait till the top of the house season to know if his contract can be prolonged, in response to the chief govt of the nation’s apex cricket physique, Nick Hockley.
    After a woeful run, together with dwelling Test sequence defeats to India, Australia turned issues round in dramatic vogue to win the T20 World Cup and are on the verge of claiming the Ashes sequence.
    Cricket Australia CEO Nick Hockley, nonetheless, refused to expose a lot on Langer’s future but.
    “I think JL, I think the whole square are doing a fantastic job,” Hockley instructed reporters on Sunday, the primary day of the Boxing Day Ashes Test towards England.
    “We’ve seen that by way of the performances of the primary couple of Tests.
    “We always said we’re going to be really focused on the two upcoming campaigns – the T20 World Cup and the T20 team did fabulously to bring that trophy home, and same for the Ashes – I know JL, I know the team, they are very, very focused on this series.” He added, “What we have said, before the summer, we’ll be sitting down at the end of the season to review where we go from there.”

    Hockley additionally didn’t entertain questions on whether or not CA wish to ease the workload on Langer, who’s in control of all three codecs.
    “As I said, that’s something we’re going to look at towards the end of the season,” he mentioned.
    Hockley, nonetheless, did say that Langer would see out his contract, which expires in the course of subsequent yr.
    “There’s no question Justin will see out his contract that goes through to the middle of next year,” Hockley mentioned.
    “There’s a tour of Pakistan and there’s a lot of great cricket coming up, but as I said we’ll sit down and review where we are at the end of the Ashes.”