Australia limited-overs skipper Aaron Finch has backed Andrew McDonald to take Australia forward. Notable that as Justin Langer resigned as Australia’s head coach last week, Andrew McDonald, who worked as an assistant coach under Justin Langer, has been assigned the job on an interim basis.
Langer worked with the Australian team for 4 years and his contract was set to expire in June but as Cricket Australia didn’t offer him a long-term extension, he decided to part ways immediately.
“He (McDonald) brings a lot of respect from the players. He has a calm approach. He’s someone who never seems to get flustered by any situation or result. It’s all about the process and making sure that your attention to detail and your preparation and your planning is 100 per cent,” Aaron Finch spoke Sydney Morning Herald.
“He brings a really good attitude around the group. He’s been with the team for quite a while now. It’s exciting times. I’ve worked with him for a long time, we played together for a long time, I know he’s very good at his job,” he added.
Speaking about Langer’s resignation, Finch said that all the players have given their feedback to Cricket Australia about Langer’s tenure but he stated that it’s totally Cricket Australia’s decision. But he urged everyone to move on from the saga and focus on the next series.
“We’ve got to move on now”- Aaron Finch
“We sat down in August and talked through all of that about things to improve and gave our feedback. That was as much conversation that I’ve really had about it all. Like Pat said yesterday, it’s not our decision to be made but we gave all our feedback along the way and we’ve got to move on from all that now and start with the Australian cricket team hopefully winning this series,” he elaborated.
Australia test skipper Pat Cummins yesterday broke the silence on the matter as he hit out all former players to throw unnecessary at him.
“Like Paddy said yesterday, guys are sticking up for their mate and we’re doing the same thing. JL did an amazing job for four years and that ended with a brilliant T20 World Cup win and a brilliant 4-0 Ashes win. As a playing group, we couldn’t thank him enough and I know personally, the amount of work he’s done for me as a batter, as a person, as a leader has been fantastic,” Finch said.
Australia are set to play a 5-match T20I series against Sri Lanka starting on Friday.
Then they will travel to Pakistan to play a full-fledged series consisting of 3 Tests, 3 ODIs, and one T20I starting on March 4.
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