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Bolt Is Human, His Sport's Rules Are Tuesday 30th August, 2011 15 BY REX CLEMENTINE How much a regret is that in your career? lose, but it was a good thing, it made us hun- them. We had played for a long time. I Waugh. Ponting, Hayden, Gilchrist and Langer: I would have loved to play more grier, stronger and better. played with Shane Warne since we were 18 some of the all time greats in one side. ne of the key ingredients for the suc- One-Day Internationals. But it’s a great era. Question: What prompted you to retire at the Cricket Academy.It’s the same with Most teams have one great player, some cess of the Australian cricket teams A lot of good players didn’t play much Test in 2007? McGrath. It was a nice way to finish and I teams maybe two. But we had six great Ocaptained by Steve Waugh and Ricky or ODI cricket at all. Of course, having Langer: What I had started to realize, the have got amazing memories of that last players and then we had some very good Ponting in the last decade was the success- played a lot of one-day cricket for Western whole team went through it, from the age of series. I was honoured to finish with those players like myself, Damien Martyn, Brett ful opening combination of Justin Langer Australia, Middlesex and Somerset, I would 34 there was always discussion in the media two great players. Lee and others. Now that we have started and Matthew Hayden. The duo were so pro- have loved the opportunity.The hardest about my position in the team. It was an age Question: The current Australian side losing, people are calling us rubbish. I told lific in their run making that apart from thing for me was leaving my team-mates, thing you know. The decision was two fold has gone through several setbacks. Do you them we can’t have both ways. The impor- breaking so many records established by who were like my brothers. When I was really at that time. There was not going to expect the current team to reach the heights tant thing is to be patient with this team. Greenidge and Haynes, they challenged playing Test cricket, I was the guy to leave be a Test Match for 11 months and I was 37 of the formidable Australian sides of the The determination is there. We are getting them to the position of the greatest opening all the time. I didn’t like leaving my broth- then. Leading up to that Ashes series I got last decade? it from the media and we are getting it combination in Test cricket. ers all the time. 340 or something for Somerset, so I was bat- Langer: This is a different team. Of from the public, that’s okay.The expecta- Cricket isn’t the only area Langer has Question: We have heard about your ting as good as ever. But there was still talk, course it could happen. But the reality is tions are very high. But in any team, you excelled. While he has a black belt in taek- passion for martial arts and boxing. Does a mainly because of my age, not because of that this is a different time and a different take six players out of a team and it hap- wondo, his passion for boxing is huge and sport like boxing help your cricket? my form or my partnership with Matthew era and we have got to be very patient. pens. You take Murali out of the Sri Langer calls cricket and boxing a lot similar. Langer: Boxing is great for your physi- Hayden. I thought I don’t want to wait for When we played, people used to say that Lankan team and they are not the same Despite a strike rater better than Damien cal fitness. Boxing is very similar to batting, another 11 months, I will be making hun- this is not good for world cricket. It’s been team. You take Sangakkara or Martyn and Mark Waugh in Test cricket because it’s about footwork and technique dred after hundred for Somerset and too easy; we want to see tight games. I Jayawardene from this team and it’s going and a strike rate of 88 in domestic one-day and it’s about facing your opponents and Western Australia, but people were still used to tell them; be very careful of what to be hard. You can have the best system cricket, Langer played only eight ODIs. His facing your own fears. In the boxing ring going to question my spot in the team. you guys are saying here. This is once in a and coaches in the team, but if you don’t much hyped up 100th Test Match ended in there’s no way to hide. You can’t run away I remember sitting in the dressing room lifetime cricket team. We had guys like have the best players, it’s very hard to win disaster when a Makhaya Ntini bouncer or you are a coward. When you are batting at the MCG after we went 4-0 up. Sitting Warne, McGrath, Steve Waugh and Mark every game. gave him a head cut and concussion before you can’t run away,if you do, you are a cow- next to my great friend Matthew Hayden in he had opened his account and was rushed ard. If you don’t concentrate in a boxing the change room and I remember he was so to the hospital. ring you get knocked out. You have to con- determined to get back into the one-day Langer was opening batting with Hayden centrate while batting and if you don’t you team. Taking a boxing cliché, he had an eye when Australia toured Sri Lanka in 2004 get knocked out. So they are similar. Martial of a tiger you know. He was so deter- and he struggled without scoring a half-cen- arts and boxing teach you about discipline mined. He was training hard and he tury in the first five innings, but redeemed and respect for your opponents and for wanted to get back into the one-day himself in the last innings where he made a yourself. Those things are very important if side so desperately.I looked at him and match winning 166 at the SSC. you want to be a good performer. thought; look I have been training, I Langer is the Batting Coach of the Question: Your hundredth Test obvious- did everything, absolutely everything Australian cricket team currently touring ly was a dramatic one. You were taken to to be ready for that Ashes series and I Sri Lanka and in an exclusive interview the hospital after being hit on the head. was wondering, what’s next for me. What’s with The Island, spoke on his career and After missing the entire game, you said you going to give me that fuel and fire that the future of Australian cricket. would bat if there was a need against strong Mathew Hayden has got and the younger Langer retired in 2007 from Test cricket medical advice. Talk us about that? players have got? I thought it was a great with other Australian greats such as Shane Langer: I was playing with my brothers. time to do it. In hindsight, I have four Warne and Glen McGrath after completing I knew I would regret it forever if we need- daughters; it’s ironic because I am now a 5-0 Ashes whitewash and here he explains ed 15 runs to win and if I didn’t go out to back on the road with the Australian team, the reasons to quit. bat. It may have been not the right decision, I knew my daughters were a big thing I He also calls Muttiah Muralitharan as but I knew I would regret it for the rest of was missing on. The best thing about it is the greatest bowler he has faced, ahead of my life if I didn’t do it. So that was the case. that not many people get to finish with Wasim Akram and explains why his SSC Luckily Michael Kasprowicz and Brett got a fairytale. Look at Simon hundred in 2004 is so special. the winning runs for us. (Australia won the Katich recently,but I finished Here are the excerpts. Test by two wickets with Langer to come in after a 5-0 whitewash against Question: Tell us about the Test series as last man). England at the SCG with here in 2004. You struggled in five innings Question: Obviously things didn’t go too my best mates and I was before making a hundred in your final well for the team in 2005 where you lost the very lucky. appearance. What are your memories of Ashes after years of complete domination. Question: At which point that series? Personally it was a good series for you, but during that Ashes campaign Langer: Murali was very hard to face not many would have expected Australia to did you make up your mind? like a lot of people found out. Murali is the lose the Ashes on that occasion given the Langer: I literally made best bowler I ever faced. He gave me more side you had. What went wrong? it at the MCG, the night of sleepless nights than Wasim Akram or Langer: It was amazing that we lost that the fourth Test victory.Then Shoaib Akthar.
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