A weeping Matthew Hayden has criticized nationwide gamers for not publicly supporting Justin Langer within the lead-up to his resignation as Australia’s head coach.
Langer, below whose steerage Australia gained the T20 World Cup and Ashes sequence 4-0, stepped down on Saturday after dealing with complaints from gamers about his teaching fashion for months.
An emotional Hayden instructed ABC Sport: “If he had been waiting for the current Australian cricket team to present a caring face, I say they wouldn’t be and that’s the real sadness for me.”
Handed over the captaincy after the abrupt ouster of Tim Paine, Pat Cummins didn’t endorse Langer as coach and insisted that reviewing his suitability for the function was acceptable in a “high-performing environment”.
Hayden criticized Cummins, one of many gamers who raised issues about Langer’s teaching fashion final yr and known as your complete analysis course of unhealthy.
“It was not a healthy process,” stated the 50-year-old, who had fashioned a formidable opening pair with Langer throughout his taking part in days.
“It was a Blok (Langer) who gained the Ashes, mainly staying in Melbourne the entire time, whereas it lasted a month. The entire factor is mainly paying homage to being orchestrated from the second all this rubbish began popping out in the midst of final yr.
“You might see it was written on the wall. If I wager again so Justin Langer would retain his place on the finish of his contract, I would not have put my complete life’s financial savings on him.”
On Friday, Langer had a prolonged assembly with the board, which supplied him a short-term extension however he determined to say no the supply. Hayden criticized Cricket Australia, saying the gamers in addition to the gamers must be blamed for the way in which stories of dissatisfaction with Langer’s teaching turned public.
“It is such a leaking boat, there is this so-called high performance culture within cricket. There is no inner sanctum anymore,” he stated.
Langer was handed the reins of Australian cricket in 2018 following the notorious ball-tampering scandal. But Hayden stated CA had no regard for the way Langer managed the group after that scandal. Langer welcomed Steve Smith and David Warner again into the group in 2019 after the top of his one-year suspension.
“Where would Davy Warner be now if Justin Langer was not the coach? Where will Steve Smith be? Remember after they got here again after their yr of suspension? JL spent ceaselessly round these two guys.
“We, the Australian cricket community, loved Justin because he came in and said, ‘Absolutely not, what we’re going to do is play this game in a way that makes Australians proud again,'” he stated.
Following Langer’s departure, assistant coach Andrew McDonald has been appointed as interim coach. Besides McDonald, Trevor Bayliss, Jason Gillespie, Ricky Ponting, Greg Shippard and Michael Di Venuto are the opposite prime candidates to switch Langer as Australia’s head coach.
Former Australian quick bowler Mitchell Johnson was additionally livid after studying about Langer’s resignation. “You have to look at some of the facts and the fact that JL did a great job. He took the team out of a very dark place,” he stated. “I really feel like he has been compelled into it. I do not blame him. “I think the mess that’s gone through this whole contract debacle is disgusting and I feel like it just got to him, and I think it’s a sign gesture by Cricket Australia.”
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
