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What Langer’s resignation tells you are the two sides of a coin where the English coach apparently lost his job because of selection blunders and also for being too cosy with the players and Langer lost the players because he was too strict and a disciplinarian. Australia have named Andrew McDonald as the interim coach. 

For England too, there may be an interim coach for the Test section of the West Indies tour next month and if the process takes longer then it could well be mid-July by which time the new coach could be appointed. The English complex about the Aussies and to a certain extent South Africans, means that the names of prospective coaches doing the rounds are mainly of Aussie and South African guys. There’s Mahela Jayawardene who also gets a mention. However, if I were Andrew Strauss, the interim managing director of England men’s cricket, I would seriously consider Ravi Shastri too. Ravi did a magnificent job over the years he was with the Indian team, but none better than when he along with Ajinkya Rahane lifted the team after the ignominy of being dismissed for 36 and then to go on to win the series 2-1 in Australia in 2020-21. This despite the captain and best batsman in the team  leaving after that disaster. It was Shastri and Rahane who turned it around and that’s why Strauss would do well to check if Ravi is available. Not just England, but even Australia, now that it doesn’t have Langer, could give Ravi a new challenge to look forward to.

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