Steve Smith-led Australia behaved like ‘spoilt brats’ - Justin Langer

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New coach Justin Langer says the Australian side were behaving like “spoilt brats” ahead of the Cape Town ball-tampering scandal and Steve Smith wasn’t a strong enough leader to handle the situation.

Smith, David Warner and Cameron Bancroft were all suspended for their roles in the incident when sandpaper was used to rough up the ball during the third Test in South Africa in March.

“The whispers were there,” Langer said of the team under former coach Darren Lehmann in a British Sky TV interview reported in Australian media Thursday.

“Once upon a time, the opposition didn’t like us because we played really good, hard cricket -- we were very skilful and we won a lot of games.

“It’s easy to dislike the opposition if they’re good, but there have been too many whispers in the last 12 months or so about the abuse on the field, or dare I say, the side playing like spoilt brats.”

He said that as a former player he “nearly died” when he heard about the scandal.

“So you’ve got to wonder why it gets to that point? But it has happened now and we have got to make sure we learn from it and get better from it because we can’t shy away either.”

The scandal was preceded by several other unseemly incidents in the South African series: a stairwell clash between Warner and Quinton de Kock, and Nathan Lyon dropping the ball on a prone AB de Villiers after he was run out.

Why is Warner so angry?

 

Asked about the difference between the aggressive side he once played in and Smith’s team, Langer pointed the finger at the captaincy.

“I think Steve Smith maybe just wasn’t strong enough in his leadership,” he said.

“But he loves the game of cricket -- he practises harder than anyone I’ve ever met -- and he is a very, very nice young lad. There’s no doubt about that.”

Current skipper Tim Paine was also asked during the same television interview about how the Australia team found itself in such a dark place during the South African tour.

“I don’t think it goes back to any one individual, but not living by our behaviours over a sustained period of time -- not one year, two years, but probably even longer than that,” he said.

“It meant that something like Cape Town was probably going to happen, due to brushing over little things. But the little things can turn into big things when you take your eye off the ball.”

Warner, who like Smith is serving a one-year ban from state and international cricket, was blamed for developing the ball-tampering plot and instructing Bancroft to carry it out.

Langer said he “has got that -- you used the word, mongrel -- bit of bite in him”.

“The question I’d ask with David is how he got so angry?”

Langer took charge of his first game on Wednesday, with Australia losing the opening match of their one-day series in England by three wickets at The Oval.

[Lala2790]

Pfft, Kohli is a spoilt brat 24/7 every day a year

[The Dark Horse]

How about your fellow opener Slater?

[RAZPOR]

2 hours ago, Lala2790 said:

Pfft, Kohli is a spoilt brat 24/7 every day a year

Well doesn't matter he gets the runs,and doesn't need sandpaper like our Aussie brats and bottle caps like some other brats nearby.

[sensible-indian]

Oh just shut up Langer.

[Gollum]

Look who's talking. Smith's Aussies are saints compared to the ones led by Waugh and Ponting, under whom Langer played all his matches. 

[Tattieboy]

31 minutes ago, Gollum said:

Look who's talking. Smith's Aussies are saints compared to the ones led by Waugh and Ponting, under whom Langer played all his matches. 

I was laughing when he made the comment about being decent enough to marry his daughters  ....Justin Langer today wouldn't allow Justin Langer at 21yr to marry his daughters that's for sure !!!

[Forever Indian]

Langer was the most spoilt brat among a team of brats when he was playing. How times change!

[Lala2790]

3 hours ago, RAZPOR said:

Well doesn't matter he gets the runs,and doesn't need sandpaper like our Aussie brats and bottle caps like some other brats nearby.

Actually he doesn't get runs, Smith does, as the last Aust-Indian series shows. 

 

You should have researched your post better

[Pollack]

Aussies are so desperate to prove to how it was just a recent temporary phase for them. Rest of the times they were saints and played fair. 

[RAZPOR]

13 hours ago, Lala2790 said:

Actually he doesn't get runs, Smith does, as the last Aust-Indian series shows. 

 

You should have researched your post better

oh really ....and what research did you do ?? scratching your ass???   

Smith is busy making new sandpapers for a next year though so just hold that thought and comeback when the weepy eyed boy is next seen in the yellow,gonna be long time.

[Lala2790]

35 minutes ago, RAZPOR said:

oh really ....and what research did you do ?? scratching your ass???   

Smith is busy making new sandpapers for a next year though so just hold that thought and comeback when the weepy eyed boy is next seen in the yellow,gonna be long time.

Look everybody knows Indians are cheats. Their pitches are the biggest joke in world sport. If an Indian cricketer did what Smith did he would actually likely get a Bollywood contract and a pay rise from the BCCI.

 

You're obviously not very smart

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57 minutes ago, Pollack said:

Aussies are so desperate to prove to how it was just a recent temporary phase for them. Rest of the times they were saints and played fair. 

They have to be thankful that James Sutherland did a fantastic cover up job by saving the *** of half of their side & the coach. 

[TheWall]

11 hours ago, Lala2790 said:

Pfft, Kohli is a spoilt brat 24/7 every day a year

Wish.. he remains the same....

[RAZPOR]

13 hours ago, Lala2790 said:

Look everybody knows Indians are cheats. Their pitches are the biggest joke in world sport. If an Indian cricketer did what Smith did he would actually likely get a Bollywood contract and a pay rise from the BCCI.

 

You're obviously not very smart

Well let's assume you are right,even then we are still newbies to cheating compared to your bottle cap scrapers ,who have a PhD and made a career out of it.

I won't go as far as you to call whole of Pakistan cheats since I was schooled better than you it seems.

Smartness is a relative term ,if you are considered smart where you are from ,I can see why across the border is such a mess,it's sad

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[Lala2790]

17 hours ago, RAZPOR said:

Well let's assume you are right,even then we are still newbies to cheating compared to your bottle cap scrapers ,who have a PhD and made a career out of it.

I won't go as far as you to call whole of Pakistan cheats since I was schooled better than you it seems.

Smartness is a relative term ,if you are considered smart where you are from ,I can see why across the border is such a mess,it's sad

Actually I am far more intelligent than you can dream to be. That's why I own my own company and can afford a $5000US television and to eat lobster for dinner most nights

[Lannister]

They were always a cheats. Sometimes I wonder why other boards give lot of attention to these guys when you know you are being played for a fool. 

[RAZPOR]

8 hours ago, Lala2790 said:

Actually I am far more intelligent than you can dream to be. That's why I own my own company and can afford a $5000US television and to eat lobster for dinner most nights

I own a Jaguar and live in a 10 acre mansion along with not one but 3 companies at 25 ,so I am more intelligent by that logic. And Ambani is more intelligent than anyone here. Deemag hai to use bhi kar liya kr ,paise se deemag nahi badhta,logic dekho bande ka. XD

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2 minutes ago, RAZPOR said:

I own a Jaguar and live in a 10 acre mansion along with not one but 3 companies at 25 ,so I am more intelligent by that logic. And Ambani is more intelligent than anyone here. Deemag hai to use bhi kar liya kr ,paise se deemag nahi badhta,logic dekho bande ka. XD

[Lala2790]

11 hours ago, RAZPOR said:

I own a Jaguar and live in a 10 acre mansion along with not one but 3 companies at 25 ,so I am more intelligent by that logic. And Ambani is more intelligent than anyone here. Deemag hai to use bhi kar liya kr ,paise se deemag nahi badhta,logic dekho bande ka. XD

Friend please, you likely own a shanty tin hut in a slum. You probably fetch your water from a communal pump