Australia opener Joe Burns has said that the fallout between the players and coach Justin Langer had been “magnified”. He said there are always little problems in the team which can talked about and solved.
Langer was in teh middle of storm when he was in hotle quarantine in Adelaide with the fellow Australian cricketers.
Tensions flared up between the 46-year-old Langer and the cricketers, and Cricket Australia (CA) had to do a lot of fire-fighting, holding an emergency.
“In that fishbowl, everything is magnified,” Burns said on SEN WA on Monday. “There’d be little problems like there is in every team, you’d talk about it and it gets fixed but in the Aussie team, it always blows up and appears to be 10 times worse in the public than in reality.
“I love (Justin Langer) and him as coach, I love the passion he’s brought to the team. You make no apologies about wanting to win games for your country, if that comes across in different way then you can’t control,” said the 32-year-old Burns, who has played 23 Tests, scoting more than 1400 runs.
“Everyone in the setup knows what the ultimate goal is and what we’re trying to achieve, if you stand by those (values) you can’t go wrong and I believe the team has done that. It’s the by-product when you invite the cameras in and do a documentary, it’s great to get that access but people run with it and make their own conclusions around different issues from there,” added Burns.
Australia will take on Pakistan in T20 World Cup semifinals on November 11 in Dubai.
