Australian coach Darren Lehmann cited the Black Caps’ approach when asked how his team needed to change its approach in the wake of the ball-tampering scandal in South Africa. “Obviously previously we’ve butted heads on the line but that’s not the way to go about us playing cricket moving forward.”It is a major turnaround for the Australians and Lehmann in particular, who has previously described his priorities as “win, win, win”. While that embarrassment was far less serious than the cheating attempted by Lehmann’s Australia at the same ground five years later, the capitulation prompted a backlash among long-suffering New Zealand cricket fans. “I said: ‘I’m not playing cricket like this. Whether Australia can change its toxic team culture in their absence -- and whether Lehmann is the right person to oversee that change -- remains to be seen.

Source: Hindustan Times March 29, 2018 05:03 UTC