Justin Langer against the idea of two Australian teams playing Cricket parallelly

Justin Langer, head coach of the Australian Men’s Cricket team, has clearly voiced his disapproval over the subject of two Australian Men’s teams playing International Cricket at the same time. There is a good chance that Australia’s proposed Test series tour to South Africa will clash with the 5-match T20I series against New Zealand in […]
 
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Justin Langer against the idea of two Australian teams playing Cricket parallelly

Justin Langer, head coach of the Australian Men’s Cricket team, has clearly voiced his disapproval over the subject of two Australian Men’s teams playing International Cricket at the same time.
There is a good chance that Australia’s proposed Test series tour to South Africa will clash with the 5-match T20I series against New Zealand in New Zealand.

Langer, in a conversation with SEN radio, said, “Not just from a coach’s point of view but also from someone who’s passionate about Australian cricket’s point of view, my personal opinion, and the chairman knows this, the CEO knows this really clearly, is I didn’t like it at all.

“I don’t ever want to have two Australian teams in one place, that’s my personal opinion. In this year with what’s happening with COVID, I understand there’s complexities to it. We’re one country, aren’t we? We’re not two countries, and the one sport.”

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While England have used separate squads for limited-overs series and Test matches this year, Australia had successfully done the same before, way back in 2014, when they played a T20I against South Africa two days after the conclusion of a Test series against Pakistan in the UAE.

It took place in 2017 as well, at a time when Langer was the coach of the Australian Men’s Cricket team. The selectors back then had named two squads for the T20I games against Sri Lanka which almost coincided with a Test series involving India.

Justin Langer against the idea of two Australian teams playing Cricket parallelly

“If you have two Australian cricket teams in this current COVID period….let’s say we’ve got to take 18 players to New Zealand, we’ve got to take 18 players to South Africa, that’s 36 players out of the backend of the Sheffield Shield competition.

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“So you’re taking all your best players out of the back half of the Shield competition, which we’ve always said is the best domestic competition in the world. They’re the sort of things that worry me with this. But this is a really strange season; we’re seeing it with AFL, we’re seeing it with NRL, but I certainly would never like to see it be a permanent fixture,” said Langer.