Justin Langer Will Benefit From The Break, Feels Darren Lehmann

Justin Langer, the former Australian Test opener and the current head coach, has done a remarkable job in his two-year stint at the helm of the Australian Men’s’ Cricket team. The former opener was given the responsibility at a time when Australian cricket was possibly at the nadir in their celebrated cricket history.

In the wake of the Newlands ball-tampering scandal where the then captain Steven Smith and the opening duo of David Warner and Cameron Bancroft were found guilty of plotting and carrying out the ball-tampering saga during the second innings of the third Test in Cape Town, sweeping changes were made by Cricket Australia.

Head Coach Darren Lehmann resigned immediately and Justin Langer was given the onus of reviving the lost credibility of Australian cricket. Langer has since then done an admirable job and his predecessor Darren Lehman thinks that the current break due to the COVID-19 pandemic has come at a prudent time for the former opener as it will give him to recharge himself after what has been a grueling period of two years.

“I think you naturally have stress in the job from the pressures you’re under. I know Justin has had times where he’s really struggled with that, and that’s been a learning curve for him to get through, and he’s starting to do that well,” Darren Lehmann was quoted as saying by cricket.com.au.

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Forced break good for Justin Langer: Darren Lehmann

The former coach said that the forced break will serve him good- both as a coach as well as a person, considering Australia have played non-stop cricket in the past 18 months.

Lehmann added: “But it’s a life span — how long can you keep doing it before it does change you? I said to (Langer) the other day, that in a weird way, this is a really good enforced break for him right now — I think it will be good for his coaching and good for him as a person. He’s been in the job two years and he’s having a break now, which is actually not bad — I didn’t get that.”

It has been hectic two years for Justin Langer. But courtesy his immpecable ethics and discipline,  he alongside captain Tim Paine have managed to regain the faith of the cricketing folklore and after initial on-field hiccups, the performance of the Australian team have been largely good, the shining point being the 2019 Ashes where the Men in Gold and Green proceeded to regain the urn for the first time on English soil since 2001.

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