{"id":11975,"date":"2018-05-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-02T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/justin-langer-leaves-the-door-open-for-steve-smith-to-return-as-captain\/"},"modified":"2018-05-02T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-05-02T00:00:00","slug":"justin-langer-leaves-the-door-open-for-steve-smith-to-return-as-captain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/sport\/justin-langer-leaves-the-door-open-for-steve-smith-to-return-as-captain\/","title":{"rendered":"Justin Langer Leaves The Door Open For Steve Smith To Return As Captain"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Freshly appointed Australian cricket coach Justin Langer is not ruling out a possible return to the captaincy for the suspended Steve Smith.<\/h3>\n<p>Langer told FIVEAA the players suspended over the ball tampering scandal were \u201cripping blokes\u201d.<\/p>\n<blockquote><h3>\u201cThe three of them made some mistakes, but there\u2019s no reason why they can\u2019t be a big part of it in the future,\u201d he said on Thursday.<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cWe all make mistakes\u2026 we\u2019ve all got areas we can get better at, there\u2019s no doubt about that.<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cWhat I know about Steve Smith and Cameron Bancroft &#8212; David Warner the same &#8212; they love cricket, they\u2019re ripping young blokes. If I was to say the people who love cricket more than anyone I\u2019ve met in the game there was Mike Hussey and there\u2019s Steve Smith and there\u2019s Cameron Bancroft.<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cLeadership is everything\u2026 the captaincy is going to be a crucial discussion. Tim Paine is an outstanding young bloke\u2026 he\u2019s a very good Australian appointment at the moment.<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cThe expectation will be all our players will be good players and we can probably choose from seven or eight players, that\u2019s the challenge.\u201d<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Cricket Australia officially announced Langer as the new national coach on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Justin Langer named to replace Darren Lehmann as Australian cricket coach. LATEST: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4wHSPpQ29X\">https:\/\/t.co\/4wHSPpQ29X<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/K8lzjd8lD8\">pic.twitter.com\/K8lzjd8lD8<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Herald Sun Sport (@heraldsunsport) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/heraldsunsport\/status\/991788489900347392?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 2, 2018<\/a><\/blockquote>&#13;\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Freshly appointed Australian cricket coach Justin Langer is not ruling out a possible return to the captaincy for the suspended Steve Smith. Langer told FIVEAA the players suspended over the ball tampering scandal were \u201cripping blokes\u201d. \u201cThe three of them made some mistakes, but there\u2019s no reason why they can\u2019t be a big part of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":3920,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[143],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-11975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Justin Langer Leaves The Door Open For Steve Smith To Return As Captain - FIVEAA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/sport\/justin-langer-leaves-the-door-open-for-steve-smith-to-return-as-captain\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Justin Langer Leaves The Door Open For Steve Smith To Return As Captain\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Freshly appointed Australian cricket coach Justin Langer is not ruling out a possible return to the captaincy for the suspended Steve Smith. 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