Justin Langer
Justin Langer
Justin Lee Langer AMis an Australian former cricketer who represented Australia in 105 Test matches, and is the current coach of Western Australia and the Perth Scorchers in Australian domestic cricket. A left-handed batsman, Langer is best known for his partnership with Matthew Hayden as Australia's opening batsmen during the early and mid-2000s, considered one of the most successful ever. Representing Western Australia domestically, Langer played English county cricket for Middlesex and Somerset, and holds the record for the most...
ProfessionCricket Player
Date of Birth21 November 1970
It may not be an important game for us, but we won our last one and while we're not in the hunt for the final it's important for us to keep the momentum going.
That's not being arrogant, that's just a fact, ... With the experience and the statistics we've got in our change room we'll win Test matches.
You need to play late against swing and take singles and twos.
When you play on a wicket that is spinning a lot like we saw in Melbourne, there is a lot of people around the bat and there's a lot happening.
Basically it's the first time the team has operated as a professional outfit,
I hardly knew any of the guys I was playing with, and the guys I was playing against I had just seen them on TV.
If we were to lose this series 3-1, worst-case scenario, I would look back on this and say it's the best series I've ever played in,
He always tends to go across the left-hander,
In cricket there is great tradition, particularly Test cricket, and as long as I've played the game the 12th man was usually one of the bowlers if one of your players goes off,
I know some of our guys are enjoying it, and some of them perhaps aren't because the results aren't quite there. We'll be better for it, individually and as a team, there's no doubt about that. To me it's a buzz to be in this situation.
In this day of professionalism it's just another way of getting the best out of the resources that are available and are within the rules, and we can't argue with it because it's within the rules.
If getting out for 99 is the worst thing that happens to me in my life, I'll take it,
If you don't experience either of those, it simply means that you are not playing.
Experience tells us that few matches are won on the back of one or two good sessions of play. To win a Test match most teams have to win and outplay the opposition for extended periods of time.