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Fallout between coach Langer and Australian cricketers was exaggerated: Joe Burns

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Published date08 November 2021
When Langer was quarantined in a hotel in Adelaide with the Australian squad, he was caught in the thick of a storm. Tensions between Langer and the cricketers erupted, and Cricket Australia (CA) had to put out a lot of fires, hosting an emergency Zoom meeting in August with CA chairman Earl Eddings, CEO Hockley, Test captain Tim Paine, limited-overs captain Aaron Finch, and Pat Cummins.

Langer came under intense scrutiny after returning from Australia's 4-1 T20I series losses to West Indies and Bangladesh. There were reports of discontent between him and the players apart from an alleged heated argument with a Cricket Australia (CA) staffer in Dhaka.

But opener Burns backed Langer amid the backdrop of the criticism he faced in the build-up to the ICC T20 World Cup and Ashes series, beginning December 8 at the Gabba.

"In that fishbowl, everything is magnified," Burns said on SEN WA on Monday. "There'd be little problems like there is in every team, you'd talk about it and it gets fixed but in the Aussie team, it always blows up and appears to be 10 times worse in the public than in...

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