I've got so much respect for Cummins: Justin Langer

Former Australia mens cricket team head coach Justin Langer has rubbished claims that he was in a conflict with Test and ODI skipper Pat Cummins following fiery claims by the exopener that he was betrayed by cowards at Cricket Australia CAIn a widelypublicised interview the former Australia opener indicated he felt let down by senior players such Pat Cummins and Aaron Finch which eventually led him to step down as head coachLanger had quit days before the teams scheduled departure for the historic Test series against Pakistan earlier this year after CA just gave him a sixmonth contract extensionSome seniors in the side were reportedly not happy with Langers micromanagement of the team and things came to a head on a couple of occasions during the final 12 months of his contractLanger recently slammed Cummins on a podcast for going behind his back and that he grew tired of the leaks around his future when his contract was up for renewal resulting in all the negativityAlso readSkipper Pat Cummins Doing well for Oz should be Greenrsquos aimHowever Langer has now insisted that the rumours of a rift with Cummins are utter rubbishIronically I spoke to Patty Cummins on Monday we had a long talk about how the team was going how hes going how his familys going And some of this rubbish is complete and utter rubbish Langer told Channel 7 News Perth according to a report in Daily MailIve got so much respect for Patty Cummins I think hes a brilliant player I think hes an outstanding human being So any thought theres war between Patty and I could not be further from the truthLanger had initially said in a podcast which raised quite a storm that I spoke to Pat Cummins He said to me about five times This might be brutally honest I said Pat there is nothing brutal about your feedback What is brutal is Im hearing it behind my back through the media or through sources No ones telling me Tell meEveryone was being nice to my face but I was reading about this stuff Langer said A lot of journalists use the word source I would say change that word to coward Because what do you mean a source says Theyve either got an axe to grind with someone and they wont come and say it to your face or theyre just leaking stuff for their own agenda Langer had said in the podcastHowever Langer clarified on Channel 7 that the word coward was taken out of contextThere was sort of talk about relating the word coward with Pat Cummins If you listen to the podcast I was actually praising Pat Cummins I was praising Aaron Finchy I was praising Tim Paine for giving me the feedback I was actually complimenting them not criticising them as its come out It turns into a bushfire what do you doThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever