On Friday, Cricket Australia (CA) announced that the Australian head coach Justin Langer will also lead the T20I selection committee.
After Mark Waugh’s resignation from the three-member selection panel in last May, national selector Trevor Hohns and national talent manager Greg Chappell were controlling the selection panel. Now, Langer will join with them to work as a T20I selector.
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CA further added that the Big Bash coaches and the state talent managers’ views will also to be taken before conducting the future T20I selections.
The team’s performance manager, Pat Howard said, “We believe the changes to the structure of the selection process will deliver the best possible result for the Australian Men’s Cricket Team across all formats. Having a selector focus on the T20 format for the past 18 months was viewed as a success, particularly as we now sit third in ICC rankings in this format, and we will look to continue this in a slightly modified way.
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“This sees Justin take on additional responsibility as both the Head Coach and lead selector in Twenty20 cricket, as we build towards the ICC World T20 in Australia in 2020. Justin has performed a similar role previously while coach of the Perth Scorchers, and has a wealth of knowledge around the Big Bash League and its players. The changes also see the State Talent Managers and Big Bash League coaches involved in the selection process for Twenty20 cricket, as we consult our experts in Australian cricket.”
In the recent T20I cricket, Australia has done well. This calendar year, Australia has played 11 T20I games and won 8 matches and lost only thrice. After winning the T20I tri-series in the early this year, where England and New Zealand also participated, Australia again performed well in the recently concluded T20I tri-series in Zimbabwe as they reached the final and lost in the final against Pakistan.
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In the latest T20I ranking, Australia is at no.3, just behind Pakistan and India.
