Nathan Lyon was also shown commenting, light-heartedly, on the fact it had been unusual to see the head coach with a “smile on his face” during the final Test of the home summer against Sri Lanka in Canberra. This followed scenes in the Amazon documentary The Test that depicted Tim Paine, Usman Khawaja and Peter Handscomb all conveying feedback to Langer at the end of the Boxing Day Test defeat to India in December 2018. Held in Dubai as Smith and Warner were heading to their IPL franchises and the Australian one-day team was returning from a tour of India, one player said it became a “hey Tim, while you’re here, can we talk about the coach” session. Justin Langer with Cricket Australia chairman Earl Eddings (right). According to multiple sources, it evolved into an avenue to raise concerns about the coach. This process was devised to lead to a “clear the air” meeting between all parties in the UAE before a limited-overs series against Pakistan.
In 2018, Cricket Australia hired Harvard-educated leadership consultant Tim Ford to help the reintegration of Steve Smith and David Warner into the team following their year-long suspension over Sandpapergate. This has been compounded by players and support staff feeling his management offsiders Ben Oliver and Gavin Dovey are too close to Langer to objectively challenge him. A full-scale mutiny of players and support staff was needed for Cricket Australia to notice a fundamental problem with Justin Langer’s intense and abrasive coaching style.ĭespite spending $100,000 on two reviews, it took an emergency meeting with team leaders last week for Cricket Australia chairman Earl Eddings and recently appointed chief executive Nick Hockley to find out an implosion was taking place heading into an Ashes summer.ĭuring this hook-up, Test captain Tim Paine, white-ball skipper Aaron Finch and vice-captain Pat Cummins repeated what players and support staff had been saying for more than two years: Langer was wearing everyone out.
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