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 group head coach.
Langer resigned from the publish on Saturday when he was solely provided a six-month contract extension till October’s T20 World Cup remaining, 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 instructed 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 criticized 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 form of work he has performed and the outcomes he has achieved with the group.
“(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 stated.
“The group have performed that, JL has performed that, the employees across the group have performed that. The group, the people, all three groups are in a really totally different area the place they’re right this moment to the place they had 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 stated he’s not involved in changing Langer because the group’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, instructed reporters.
“I’ve got a lot of work to do here and I’m absolutely loving it.”
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
