Justin Langer’s relationship with Australian cricketers is cooked | Sam Perry

If Cricket Australia has designs on improving mediocre results the coach’s position must be untenable

There is an Australian Test cricketer from many, many decades past who reserves a specific response for his wife when she castigates him for arriving home drunk. After her rebuke, he walks silently up the stairs to his bedroom. He removes all his clothes, gathers a solitary item, then returns downstairs. They are both serene, because they have both been here before. When he re-enters the room, he is naked but for the baggy green on his head. He stands opposite her, at a respectful distance.

“How many Tests have you played?” he drawls.

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