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This week the usual panel are joined by Australian great Justin Langer to discuss the potential of him taking over from Brendon McCullum as the new England Test coach...
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Justin Langer: I haven't heard from anyone about the job
There are three coaching roles in the world: the Australian head coach, the Indian head coach, and the England head coach. But it's all hypothetical, isn't it?
Those three are the biggest teams that are passionate about the game of cricket, but mainly about Test cricket. I've seen franchise cricket and it's awesome, but we've got to have Test cricket... It brings the whole country alive.
I'm really keen and we've seen it in Australia, seen it in England, that Test cricket must keep thriving. It's important that it keeps going strong.
If you'd asked me that [the England job] five or seven years ago, I'd probably have said no. Now I'm a bit older, it's a job. You're a professional coach. I think now with world cricket as well, it's so global. I'd never have dreamed I'd be coaching franchise cricket. I'd never dreamed I'd coach Australia. It's a career, and everyone looks at all opportunities, don't they?
I haven't heard from anyone. It's interesting, you read it all, but it's all paper talk.
Langer: McCullum and new Test coach face teething issues
It can work if you've got the right people, and they've got to get on very well and be on the same page. They're going to have the same thinking. You've seen it - I think it happened with Andy Flower and Ashley [Giles]. I think it happened with Matthew Mott and Baz to a degree.
My personal view has always been that if you're the head coach of Australia, you should oversee all of it. It doesn't mean you have to be there for all of it, but now it's complicated with T20 and white-ball cricket.
They've got to be really on the same page, and the director of cricket has to be - they've got to work hand in glove. So, I would say there will be some teething issues for Baz and whoever he's working with. It could work, but there haven't been too many examples where it has worked.
If you're the head coach of the Test team, you want your 11 best players. There are personnel - I think that's a big part of it - and just managing through it. What's more important, a Test championship or a T20 World Cup?
It's like a game of chess now, honestly. With franchise cricket, some guys play the IPL, then they want to take some time off international cricket, which is always going to get the juices flowing. It's the world we live in, right? Managing it all, you've got to have a depth of talent."
Langer: I feel for Baz McCullum
I actually feel for Baz McCullum. It is a really, really tough job. He'll do a great job. I've never heard anyone say a bad word about Baz McCullum. He's a very strong leader.
I still have this image of the first Test of the Ashes last year. England all walked across Optus Stadium together. It was like watching Braveheart. I remember going, 'Mate, they mean business here.' I asked about that, and well, that's one of Baz's things. He brings the boys together - strong leadership. The results haven't gone their way, but you talk about all head coaches are interim, really, aren't they?
Langer: I hope Stokes misses the 2027 Ashes
What I do know is he is the one guy who I remember we played in the last Test match after that famous series when he had that amazing innings. I remember saying to Jos Buttler, 'Is he a good bloke?'
And I remember Jos saying, 'JL, if you coached him, he would be your favourite player ever to coach.'
I thought, this guy, mate, heart, he's a bloody warrior, right? So that night I put a baggy green cap on him and chucked him over my shoulder.
How do I think of his retirement? I think when you're a player like that who's done what they have for England, go out however you want. That's my honest view. Respect, he's been brilliant for England. He's been a great warrior.
Will he come back? Guys like that, he's so fit. Physically he can, mentally he can, but only in his heart if he wants to. Again, only he can answer that. When it comes to the Ashes, from an Australian point of view, I hope he doesn't. Because he's a warrior. You'd have him in your team every single day of the week.
Langer: I have no idea who will be the next England Test coach
I think an English coach is a really important element. You've got to have a real passion for it. That's what I loved about coaching Australia. I coached Western Australia, and we were in a real mess then as well, but I'm West Australian, so I had that absolute passion for making a difference. I never thought I'd leave that job, actually. In my office in Western Australia, I had the Alex Ferguson book facing me. I would just sit at my desk, and I wanted to be Sir Alex Ferguson, be at Old Trafford for a long time. Western Australia, I'm home.
The other book I had, which faced the other way, and this is a true story... is called The No Asshole Rule, and it is a great book. So, anyone who came into my office realized we did not have assholes around here. I believe you get great characters; you get great people. You get them, and everything will be all right.
Coaching Australia at Sandpapergate was like, 'I'm leaving my dream job. I'm home with my family. We're winning everything... I'm home every day. I sleep in my own bed.' And then I went to the Australian job because of Sandpaper. I thought, 'I've got it, we need to sort this out.' So, there's real passion to it, right?
Who will coach England? I've got no idea, mate. They're going to have to work really well with Baz. You look at Trez [Marcus Trescothick]... I know he's passionate about English cricket and he's worked with Baz for the last little bit. But then we talked about it before, succession planning.
You have to. You've always got to have succession planning. Richard Dawson, they tell me he's a ripper, a great person... Jonathan Trott... there are lots of good people. You've got to get the right people in your camp, and things usually work out pretty well.