Taylor's desperate plea amid new Langer furore

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Former Australian skipper Mark Taylor has urged existent and past players to interruption breadstuff and inject immoderate positivity into the nation's elite cricket image.

Taylor's comments connected Nine's Sports Sunday travel days aft erstwhile men's caput manager Justin Langer again aired his soiled laundry successful nationalist and lambasted "cowards" who helium blames for his downfall earlier this year.

Langer was offered a six-month declaration hold by Cricket Australia but chose to locomotion distant from the occupation pursuing the location Ashes series, though helium has repeatedly suggested helium was sacked - a furphy corrected by the governing body.

The mode successful which helium exited the seat has driven a wedge betwixt past players and the existent radical - namely Test and ODI skipper Pat Cummins, who immoderate person accused of white-anting his manager retired of the job.

Langer name-dropped Cummins successful a caller podcast past week and suggested "cowards" wrong the Australian campy leaked stories astir his coaching benignant to the media, damaging his representation and starring to the determination to lone connection a short-term extension.

The information the contented has entered headlines again connected the eve of Australia's Test summertime - which begins Wednesday successful Langer's location metropolis of Perth against the West Indies - has galore concerned Langer is casting a acheronian unreality implicit the nationalist squad by raking implicit aged graves and refusing to fto the grudge die.

Taylor is disquieted the disfigured occurrence has tarnished the game's marque globally.

"(It has) astir apt (damaged Langer's reputation) a small bit. But Justin is simply a combative guy, he's a combatant - helium was arsenic a cricketer, was arsenic a coach. So it's his personality," Taylor told Sports Sunday.

"If he's got a transverse to carnivore helium wants to fto radical know, truthful helium comes retired with it.

Starc shuts down rift rumours

"The lone happening I would accidental to Justin, oregon to players, oregon to administrators successful general, is I'd similar to spot everyone conscionable deliberation a small spot much astir Australian cricket - and I don't mean Cricket Australia, I mean Australian cricket - earlier they marque comment.

"It's not large for the marque of Australian cricket.

"Let's person a spot much positivity astir Australian cricket. Less thought astir idiosyncratic brands, and a spot much astir the squad marque oregon the federation brand."

Since the podcast aired Langer has gone connected grounds to clarify helium doesn't person a idiosyncratic contented with Cummins.

Another Australian accelerated bowler, Mitchell Starc, connected Saturday moved to rubbish rumours of a rift betwixt players and the erstwhile coach.

"We exchanged a fewer substance messages post-World Cup, truthful arsenic acold arsenic I'm acrophobic I'm beauteous comfy with however my narration is with JL," Starc said.

"I wouldn't telephone america (cowards)."

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