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Justin Langer may be filling in for Darren Lehmann as Australia’s coach for the triangular series in West Indies, but he insists he is in no hurry to take up the position permanently.
“I think the natural progression would be to one day coach the Australian cricket team, or certainly that would be an aspiration,” Langer told the Cricket Australia website ahead of the team’s departure to the Caribbean. “But I also know, having lived that life for so long, that you’re away from home for 11 months of the year and I also don’t think we can underestimate the importance of the role I’m doing at the moment as the head coach of one of the state teams. So who knows what will happen in the future.”
Langer is currently coaching Western Australia in the Sheffield Shield and Perth Scorchers in the Big Bash League. He will be filling in for the national job for the first time, after Lehmann, who developed deep vein thrombosis earlier this year, was rested.
Though he has no plans to step away from the job in the foreseeable future, Lehmann has anointed Langer as his possible replacement.
Prior to his Western Australia appointment, Langer, who played 105 Tests and scored more than 7500 runs, worked as a specialist batting coach with the Australian team. He also had talks about the England coaching role last year, but decided against it, with the job going to fellow countryman Trevor Bayliss.
“It just didn’t feel right,” he said of the England job. It would have been difficult, he said, “looking over at all my mates singing the Australian national anthem and I’m in an England tracksuit singing the English national anthem”.
Australia begin the tri-series in Guyana on June 6 against South Africa before facing the hosts four days later at the same venue. The final is scheduled on June 26, and Langer said he was looking forward to the task at hand.
“Certainly this West Indies tour I’m looking forward to it, but I’m doing it with the respect it deserves,” said Langer. “I’m helping Darren out, I’m going to make sure the ship keeps running nice and smoothly in his absence and I think that’s the respect I can give him, it’s the respect I would expect if someone else was doing [for me] what I’m doing for him.
“Boof is doing a great job, I really admire how he’s going about his business and if I can help him for a few weeks then I’m happy to do that.”
Meanwhile, Mitchell Starc, 26, said he was raring to go after six months on the sidelines, declaring himself “fit, strong and ready”.
Starc has been out of action since fracturing his foot in last November’s historic day-night Test in Adelaide against New Zealand. “It’s been a long time coming. The foot has been great, there’s no pain in the ankle or the foot,” Starc told reporters in Sydney. “I’ve been really happy with it, it’s come along really well. I’ve had a good three or four months in the gym to get a bit of size back on, and I’m feeling really good; fit, strong and ready to play some cricket.”
His fitness boosts Australia’s pace attack that also features Josh Hazlewood, Nathan Coulter-Nile and Scott Boland. Starc has been charging in off his full run-up and bowling with impressive pace at the National Cricket Centre in Brisbane over the past few days, and said he was “in a good place”.
“I’m not sure if I’ll be back up to top speed straight away, it might take a couple of games as it normally does for fast bowlers coming back, but I’m excited to see how it comes out on the gun,” he said.
If Starc comes through the tri-series unscathed, he can look forward to a busy period with tours of Sri Lanka and South Africa. This is followed by a home summer featuring Tests against South Africa and Pakistan and one-dayers with Pakistan, Sri Lanka and New Zealand.
source : http://www.wisdenindia.com/cricket-news/langer-in-no-hurry-to-be-full-time-australia-coach/211804
“I think the natural progression would be to one day coach the Australian cricket team, or certainly that would be an aspiration,” Langer told the Cricket Australia website ahead of the team’s departure to the Caribbean. “But I also know, having lived that life for so long, that you’re away from home for 11 months of the year and I also don’t think we can underestimate the importance of the role I’m doing at the moment as the head coach of one of the state teams. So who knows what will happen in the future.”
Langer is currently coaching Western Australia in the Sheffield Shield and Perth Scorchers in the Big Bash League. He will be filling in for the national job for the first time, after Lehmann, who developed deep vein thrombosis earlier this year, was rested.
Though he has no plans to step away from the job in the foreseeable future, Lehmann has anointed Langer as his possible replacement.
Prior to his Western Australia appointment, Langer, who played 105 Tests and scored more than 7500 runs, worked as a specialist batting coach with the Australian team. He also had talks about the England coaching role last year, but decided against it, with the job going to fellow countryman Trevor Bayliss.
“It just didn’t feel right,” he said of the England job. It would have been difficult, he said, “looking over at all my mates singing the Australian national anthem and I’m in an England tracksuit singing the English national anthem”.
Australia begin the tri-series in Guyana on June 6 against South Africa before facing the hosts four days later at the same venue. The final is scheduled on June 26, and Langer said he was looking forward to the task at hand.
“Certainly this West Indies tour I’m looking forward to it, but I’m doing it with the respect it deserves,” said Langer. “I’m helping Darren out, I’m going to make sure the ship keeps running nice and smoothly in his absence and I think that’s the respect I can give him, it’s the respect I would expect if someone else was doing [for me] what I’m doing for him.
“Boof is doing a great job, I really admire how he’s going about his business and if I can help him for a few weeks then I’m happy to do that.”
Meanwhile, Mitchell Starc, 26, said he was raring to go after six months on the sidelines, declaring himself “fit, strong and ready”.
Starc has been out of action since fracturing his foot in last November’s historic day-night Test in Adelaide against New Zealand. “It’s been a long time coming. The foot has been great, there’s no pain in the ankle or the foot,” Starc told reporters in Sydney. “I’ve been really happy with it, it’s come along really well. I’ve had a good three or four months in the gym to get a bit of size back on, and I’m feeling really good; fit, strong and ready to play some cricket.”
His fitness boosts Australia’s pace attack that also features Josh Hazlewood, Nathan Coulter-Nile and Scott Boland. Starc has been charging in off his full run-up and bowling with impressive pace at the National Cricket Centre in Brisbane over the past few days, and said he was “in a good place”.
“I’m not sure if I’ll be back up to top speed straight away, it might take a couple of games as it normally does for fast bowlers coming back, but I’m excited to see how it comes out on the gun,” he said.
If Starc comes through the tri-series unscathed, he can look forward to a busy period with tours of Sri Lanka and South Africa. This is followed by a home summer featuring Tests against South Africa and Pakistan and one-dayers with Pakistan, Sri Lanka and New Zealand.
source : http://www.wisdenindia.com/cricket-news/langer-in-no-hurry-to-be-full-time-australia-coach/211804
