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Justin Langer thrown under the cricket bus

8 February 2022

4:00 AM

8 February 2022

4:00 AM

Ian Chappell was a peerless captain and has provided cricket tragics – whether readers, viewers, or (now) listeners – with searingly honest analysis of the game for many decades.

Perhaps his most perceptive insight was his claim that a cricket coach should only ever be thought of as the bus that takes the players from the airport to the hotel.

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