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MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Pat Cummins failed his first big test as Australian captain by being coy over the future of Justin Langer, former fast bowler Mitchell Johnson said on Sunday, as Langer's resignation as national men's coach continued to roil Australian cricket.
Former Australia pacer Mitchell Johnson on Sunday launched a scathing attack on Test skipper Pat Cummins after Justin Langer resigned as the head coach of the senior men's team. Cricket Australia on Saturday accepted men's team head coach Justin Langer's resignation. "Justin was offered a short-term extension to his current contract, which sadly he has opted not to accept," stated an official Cricket Australia release. "Pat Cummins has been lauded as some type of cricketing saint since his elevation to the top job this summer. Cummins might have delivered with the ball during the Ashes series, but he has failed his first big test as captain pretty miserably," Johnson wrote in a column for The West Australian, as reported by Fox Sports.
MELBOURNE : Pat Cummins failed his first big test as Australian captain by being coy over the future of Justin Langer, former fast bowler Mitchell Johnson said on Sunday, as Langer's resignation as national men's coach continued to roil Australian cricket.
Steve Waugh says Cricket Australia (CA) provided «no clarity» in its explanation of why it only offered Justin Langer a short-term contract extension as men's head coach.
Donovan Mitchell returned from an eight-game injury absence to score 27 points for the Utah Jazz, who handed the Brooklyn Nets a seventh straight NBA defeat, 125-102 on Friday.
Matthew Hayden has slammed the national players for not publicly supporting Justin Langer in the lead-up to his resignation as Australia's chief coach. Langer, under whose guidance Australia won the T20 World Cup and the Ashes series 4-0, stepped down on Saturday after facing complaints from players about his coaching style for months. "If he was waiting for the current Australian cricket team to be presenting a face of care, I dare say they won't be and that's, to me, the real sadness around this," an emotional Hayden told ABC Sport. Handed the captaincy following Tim Paine's unceremonious exit, Pat Cummins didn't endorse Langer as coach and had insisted that reviewing his suitability for the role was fair in a "high-performance environment". Hayden was critical of Cummins, who was one of the players who had raised concerns about Langer's coaching style last year and also described the whole evaluation process as unhealthy.
Cricket Australia (CA) has defended its decision to only offer Justin Langer a short-term contract extension as men's head coach, saying he did not meet the team's «needs going forward».
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