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How Ponting could have released pressure valve in Australian cricket<\/span><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n
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By\u00a0Malcolm Conn<\/span><\/h5>\n

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Source:-smh.com.au<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n

Ricky Ponting could have been quarantining in a Dubai hotel as coach of Australia\u2019s Twenty20 team if history had not taken such a tumultuous turn.<\/span><\/p>\n

Previous Australian coach Darren Lehmann wanted Ponting in the T20 role before the sandpaper scandal blew up Australian cricket during the 2018 tour of South Africa and maintains that the roles should be split.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI look back now and I think I coached too long,\u201d Lehmann told the\u00a0Herald<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0The Age<\/em>. \u201cI probably should have bowed out 12 months before that. I reckon four years is a good cycle when you\u2019re away from home 300 days a year.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIf you split the role there is more longevity because you don\u2019t have to do everything. And it has to be done properly so the T20 team can specialise. That\u2019s just sensible.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Whether current coach Justin Langer lasts beyond the Ashes this summer is a moot point. He has headed to the UAE for the T20 World Cup following a player and support staff mutiny which forced Cricket Australia to publicly guarantee his tenure until the former Test batsman\u2019s four-year contract ends midway through next year.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Lehmann supported Langer being in charge of Test, one-day and Twenty20 teams when the former West Australian and Scorchers coach was given the Australian job to reinforce a consistent message.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Former Australian teammates Ricky Ponting and Justin Langer during the Sydney Test against New Zealand last year.<\/span>CREDIT:<\/span>GETTY IMAGES<\/cite><\/span><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

However Lehmann, who coached the national team for almost five years from 2013, feels this is unsustainable in the longer term.<\/span><\/p>\n

His voice rises as the all-consuming nature of guiding Australia\u2019s biggest sporting team in the national spotlight comes flooding back.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s a lot of travel,\u201d Lehmann said. \u201cIt hasn\u2019t been as much at the moment because of COVID but when it does open up and you have to catch games up we could end up with the Test and T20 teams in different countries.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u201cThat\u2019s what happened when I was coach. We had the Test team preparing for a series in South Africa and I was in New Zealand with the T20 team. It\u2019s only going to happen more in the future.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Darren Lehmann\u2019s five years as Australian coach came to an end in 2018 following the calamitous events in South Africa.<\/span>CREDIT:<\/span>AP<\/cite><\/span><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It was the same scenario earlier this year when assistant coach Andrew McDonald took an Australian T20 team to New Zealand as Langer prepared for a Test tour of South Africa,\u00a0which was eventually called off<\/a>\u00a0because of COVID concerns.<\/span><\/p>\n

Lehmann found the constant demands of travelling was multiplied by the bureaucracy that went with the job.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cYou had board meetings, dealing with administration, dealing with states. It\u2019s a f**king big job,\u201d he laughed with a hint of exasperation. \u201cYou can say that. I loved it. It was great. But it\u2019s a f**king big job and you need help!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

In the months before resigning in tears following Sandpapergate, Lehmann and former high performance manager Pat Howard were working towards that help coming from one of Australia\u2019s finest players.<\/span><\/p>\n

An assistant coach to Lehmann at times through the 2017-18 summer and subsequent white-ball tour of New Zealand, Ponting made it clear he was keen to be Australia\u2019s T20 coach.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cHe was an extremely popular candidate and had been incredibly influential on the New Zealand T20 tour,\u201d Howard said. \u201cHe had given great energy to the players and coaches in that period.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cDarren coached on that tour but took very much a back seat. He was obviously tired. I tried to give him a tour a year off.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Having won an IPL title coaching the Mumbai Indians, Ponting is currently coaching the Delhi Capitals in the UAE, who sit on top of the table. He told the\u00a0Herald<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0The Age<\/em>\u00a0he was \u201cvery interested\u201d at the time.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI had a few chats with Pat Howard. It never got to the detail of specifics, timing, resources, structure etc as there was no time pressure for that to happen,\u201d Ponting said. \u201cIt was an open-ended discussion.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Ricky Ponting imparts his wisdom on Shikhar Dhawan in his role as Delhi Capitals coach in the IPL.<\/span>CREDIT:<\/span>GETTY<\/cite><\/span><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cHowever the events in South Africa in March 2018 led to so much change in Australian cricket and the appointment of Justin Langer to replace Darren Lehmann, across all three forms, was absolutely the right decision.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cMy life has changed a lot since then. IPL continues to be my coaching priority and it works well with my media commitments with the Seven Network, Cricket Australia and Sky in the UK.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cThe rest of the year is spent with my family and enjoying a work\/life balance that I have never had before. Right now, I would have to give up so much to take on a national role. It\u2019s just the wrong time for me.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

This highlights a major problem for Australian cricket. Some of the best candidates for coaching roles at a state and national level such as Ponting, Trevor Bayliss and Simon Katich get paid far more for spending 10 weeks at the IPL rather than 10 months in the Australian system.<\/span><\/p>\n

Having Ponting in the Australian coaching system would have been of enormous benefit. This was brilliantly highlighted during a guest stint as an assistant coach to Langer during the 2019 World Cup campaign in England.<\/span><\/p>\n

Not only was his energy and enthusiasm infectious, his advice was gold and he proved an important confidante to both Langer and the players.<\/span><\/p>\n

It is a role Ponting would be open to in the future.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cI\u2019ve really enjoyed those one-off stints and I would love to do them again if the circumstances were right for the coaching group and my own situation,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ben Oliver, Cricket Australia\u2019s executive general manager of high performances and national teams, says there are no plans to split the role.<\/span><\/p>\n

Maybe I\u2019m old-fashioned but I think it is still a role for one coach … it\u2019s really important that you have continuity.<\/span><\/p>\n

Former Australia coach Mickey Arthur<\/cite><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Sources, however, claim assistant coaches McDonald and Michael Di Venuto have been brought on board with a strategy to take white-ball tours in future as part of a plan to help ease Langer\u2019s load.<\/span><\/p>\n

While there have been ongoing concerns\u00a0about Langer\u2019s intense coaching style<\/a> it has been micromanagement involving his assistants which has been the more recent focus.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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There was an attempt to deal with this during a player and coaching staff pre-tour gathering on the Gold Coast mid-year, with white-ball captain Aaron Finch later describing some of the feedback Langer\u00a0received from a player review<\/a>\u00a0as \u201cconfronting.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

However, the tours of the West Indies and Bangladesh in July and August led to more discontent. Cricket Australia chairman Earl Eddings and CEO Nick Hockley were forced to have an emergency meeting about the coach with Finch, Test captain Tim Paine and vice-captain Pat Cummins.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Limited overs captain Aaron Finch, right, spoke this week of the value of being able to give feedback on coach Justin Langer.<\/span>CREDIT:<\/span>AP<\/cite><\/span><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The three leaders then had one-on-one sessions with Langer to try and reinforce their concerns.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a really, I suppose, a beneficial process to be able to give really strong feedback and see the action that\u2019s been taken on the back of that,\u201d Finch told a\u00a0departure press conference on Wednesday<\/a>, alluding to more defined roles for Langer and his assistants.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Mickey Arthur, who was suddenly replaced by Lehmann as Australian coach at the start of the 2013 Ashes tour, has a different view on coaching at international level in the modern game.<\/span><\/p>\n

A former coach of South Africa, Australia and Pakistan, Arthur is currently coaching Sri Lanka in Oman, where his team is playing a series of warm-up matches ahead of the T20 World Cup.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cMaybe I\u2019m old-fashioned but I think it is still a role for one coach,\u201d Arthur said.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s around you, your assistant coaches are where you get creative with the different disciplines.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cBut I think it\u2019s really important that you do have continuity, particularly with the last two teams I\u2019ve worked with: Pakistan and Sri Lanka. You have to have continuity because within the system you develop trust.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s a system that hasn\u2019t had a lot of consistency in terms of selections and decisions.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Even so, Arthur agrees that the occasional tour off is important, to give opportunities to assistant coaches.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cYou do need to stay refreshed but at this time with COVID it\u2019s just been so tough for everybody,\u201d he said. \u201cAs cricketers and coaches we keep moaning about bubbles and it\u2019s not fun, it\u2019s not good.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cBut we\u2019re still doing what we love and there are a whole lot of people who are far worse off than we are.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Whatever happens with the coaching set-up in Australia something has to give. Many feel the current one-coach structure can\u2019t continue under the same pressure-cooker environment.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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