{"id":3400,"date":"2022-02-09T08:50:33","date_gmt":"2022-02-09T03:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=190609"},"modified":"2022-02-09T08:50:33","modified_gmt":"2022-02-09T03:20:33","slug":"he-has-apologized-to-players-and-staff-for-his-intensity-says-skipper-pat-cummins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/he-has-apologized-to-players-and-staff-for-his-intensity-says-skipper-pat-cummins\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cHe has apologized to players and staff for his intensity,\u201d says skipper Pat Cummins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Head Coach of team Australia Justin Langer stepped down from his role and team Australia is currently playing with an interim coach while skipper Pat Cummins is believed to take the critical responsibility to win it for the nation for the upcoming tours.<\/p>\n<p>Pat Cummins in an interview with ICC Media said that Langer\u2019s coaching style was a bit intense to which the players and staff had already agreed but the former head coach has apologized on his behalf for which the skipper Pat Cummins thought that the apology was \u2018unnecessary\u2019 as the players and staff understood Langer\u2019s love and passion towards team Australia as the veteran had sacrificed decades of life for the service of Australian cricket.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo his ( Justin Langer\u2019s) intensity was not the issue for the players and support staff,\u201d said Pat Cummins to ICC on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Pat Cummins appreciated team Australia and its management for appointing an interim coach and consistently looking for a designated candidate for the head coach position as Langer left his role after a successful win in the Ashes. In the short period of 6 months team, Australia won the ICC T20 World Cup and dominated the Ashes under Justin\u2019s coaching.<\/p>\n<p>Pat confessed that the players are highly motivated and the team looks positive towards the opportunity given to them but the team is certainly searching for a \u2018new style\u2019 of coaching and skill set. Pat received suggestions from his teammates and its support staff while considering the new coach.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo be better players for Australia, from this solid foundation, we need a new style of coaching and skill set,\u201d says Pat Cummins.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Australia captain Pat Cummins has spoken for the first time surrounding the recent departure of Justin Langer.<\/p>\n<p>Details \ud83d\udc47<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zpr3dbAuCp\">https:\/\/t.co\/zpr3dbAuCp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ICC (@ICC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ICC\/status\/1491234975986892806?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 9, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Skipper Pat Cummins clears the air of coach Justin Langer\u2019s departure and the feeling in the dressing room with the new coach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":26474,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3060,994,607],"class_list":["post-3400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-andrew-mcdonald","tag-justin-langer","tag-pat-cummins"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}