Australia coach Justin Langer

The sudden resignation of Iain Roy, the head of Cricket Australia's Integrity Unit (now there’s an oxymoron!) has added further intrigue to a tumultuous few months for the beleaguered Australian cricket family. Coincidence it might be but coming in the same week as recent allegations of match-fixing by two Australian cricketers were aired by Al Jazeera, Roy’s hasty and immediate exit stage left is more grist for the mill for local cricket fans who remain deeply skeptical of the reform agenda being promoted by the CA Board.
The announcement of Justin Langer as the new Australian coach was as predictable as the sequence of events that led to the Cape Town cheating incident, the (crocodile?) tears and the contradictory statements that have flowed ever since. The dust has settled, the caravan has moved on but it is still as clear as mud. So much of Langer’s first press conference just made no sense when you look past the clichés and the cheap one-liners. Unlike the end-of-day media scrum at Newlands when Steve Smith and Cameron Bancroft lied about events, this should have been more coherent and sensible. They can't hide behind any excuses about panicking or being rushed. If each statement had been planned, it is either an indictment of their planning or it reinforces the perception that they mistake the Australian public for fools.