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Tim Paine reveals how Travis Head used to have difference of opinion with former Australia coach Justin Langer | Cricket News

Former Australia Test captain feels the credit for success of Travis Head in the international cricket should be given to head coach Andrew McDonald and skipper Pat Cummins, who gave him the freedom to play his natural game.
Paine says under Justin Langer, Head couldn’t flourished as a cricketer because of a difference of opinion.
“I don’t think either of them will mind me saying this, but I think he and JL (Justin Langer) used to have a real difference of opinion,” Paine told SEN Breakfast.
“You’ve got Test greats in commentary and you’ve got a Test great (Langer) that’s coaching and Graeme Hick at the time who’d scored 101 First Class hundreds as his batting coach (offering advice).
“They were trying really hard for him to work on his defence and it wasn’t the way he wanted to go about it, but he was a young Test player who was trying to impress and trying to stay in the team, so he was trying to please a bit of everyone.
“I think that’s been the major shift in his output because he is sticking true to the way he wants to play.
“At times he’s going to fail and at times he’s gonna have lean patches, but he’s going to be super aggressive, he’s going to play his shots and he’s going to try and be a match winner and we’re just seeing him blossom at the moment in all formats of the game.”
Travis Head smacked a match-winning 140 against India in the Adelaide, which helped Australia to level the five-match Test series 1-1.

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