Shane Warne shares his thoughts about the Aussies coming back from ball-tampering Saga

The Australian cricket team has drawn a lot of negative attention after the recent ball-tampering saga. Former captain and vice-captain, Steve Smith and David Warner are currently serving the one-year ban. Also, Darren Lehmann stepped down from the position of the Head Coach of the team.

Hence, there is a complete change in management for the Aussies with Tim Paine taking the captaincy responsibilities. Former opener Justin Langer will now assume the role of the Head Coach. Legendary leg-spinner Shane Warne opined that the messy junction at the moment is a chance to take a new direction.

New Zealand way? No way!

After this saga, there were various suggestions that the Aussies should adopt the Blackcaps style of playing. Over the past few years, they have won global praise for their sportsmanship while still playing an attacking game. Shane Warne never seemed to have liked this idea. “I don’t think we want to play like the Kiwis, which I heard someone say. I mean c’mon. The Kiwis, no thank you,” Warne told the Daily Telegraph.

“But we probably want something in between the Kiwis and Australia at the moment. I want us to play hard but fair, tough, uncompromising cricket, but shake hands and play in the spirit of the game and show good sportsmanship,” he added.

He also said that the team was going the un-Australian way. “I’m not sure there were team culture problems. But I have noticed there is a lot of whingeing coming out of the Australian camp in recent times, about the opposition and things like that. I think that’s un-Australian, I have never really heard any Australian sides do that,” Warne said.

“But I think it’s a great opportunity for everyone in world cricket to draw a line in the sand and say ‘how do we want to play the game?’, ‘what do we stand for?’, ‘what’s the style of play we want?’,” he said.

Warne also heaped praises on the new coach Justin Langer. “I know what Justin [Langer] is like as a person, he’s a hard worker, he’s disciplined, he instils toughness in guys, he’ll have great values with the group. As a figure, the head, he’s a good appointment, and it has come at the right time. Hopefully, he’ll help the team make us all proud of Australian cricket team again. That’s what we want,” Warne concluded.

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