Justin Langer Resignation – Johnson Cummins at Loggerheads: Australian Cricket is completely divided on the way Justin Langer Resignation episode has unfolded. Former cricket greats have blasted the current team captain Pat Cummins for not standing by Langer. After Ricky Ponting, Matthew Hayden now Mitchell Johnson has called Cummins ‘GUTLESS’ and a man with ‘NO SPINE’ – Follow Cricket News LIVE Updates with InsideSport.IN
Justin Langer Resignation: Good friends Mitchell Johnson & Pat Cummins at LOGGERHEADS, ‘Cummins GUTLESS, Baggy Green now stands for SELFISHNESS’ says Johnson
Johnson Cummins at Loggerheads – Mitchell Johnson Blasts Cummins: Mitchell Johnson is considered to be close friend of Australia’s test captain Pat Cummins. But on Langer’s ‘SHABBY TREATMENT’, Mitch has hurled unplayable bouncer on Cummins.
Jonson has declared that Cummins has “lost him” and most of the Australian public as well in wake of Langer’s resignation episode.
“Pat Cummins has been lauded as some type of cricketing saint since his elevation to the top job this summer. Cummins has failed his first big test as captain pretty miserably,” Johnson wrote in a column forThe West Australian.
“He had plenty of public opportunities to endorse an extension for Langer. So when he let it through to the keeper every time, it became pretty obvious he didn’t want it to happen.
“Cummins holds a lot of power and must have been central to what’s happened. He’s clearly had an agenda to get in a coach he wants. His recent interviews have been gutless. He by not respecting his coach showed he is GUTLESS.”
Johnson is so angry and upset with treatment given to Langer that he has even declared that BAGGY GREEN cap now stands for JUST SELFISHNESS
“The baggy green is hyped as the most revered symbol in Australian sport. But what does it stand for now? In the wake of the disgraceful white-anting of Langer as coach, which led to his resignation on Saturday, it stands for selfishness,” he wrote.
EXPLAINED: Why Justin Langer resignation episode hasn’t gone down well with fans & former cricket greats?
- The 51-year-old former Australian team opener was reportedly insulted by an extremely short-term contract extension which was offered to him following Friday’s Cricket Australia board of directors meeting.
- Langer’s four-year coaching contract was set to expire in June.
- Under Langer just won the T20 World Cup and then the 4-0 result in the Ashes.
- Australian Cricket team is currently No. 1 ranked test side
- Assistant coach Andrew McDonald has been appointed interim head coach ahead of next month’s Pakistan tour.
Earlier, Ponting and several other legends of the sport hit out at the way Langer was squeezed out.
Speaking on ABC Radio, Ponting suggested Langer had been pushed out of the coaching role after a “small group” of players refused to support him.
“It is a really sad day as far as Australian cricket is concerned and if you look back it has been a really poor six months on the whole in the way that Cricket Australia has handled some of the better people in the Australian cricket — Justin Langer and Tim Paine — and I think it’s been almost embarrassing the way they have handled those two cases,” Ponting said.
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