page_title: Justin Langer
section_title: 2003–2007
hierarchical_section_title: Justin Langer / International career / 2003–2007
caption_attribution_description: English: Crop of a photo taken by on Day 5 of the Adelaide Test match in the 2006-07 Ashes series (December 5, 2006). GFDL.
context_page_description: Justin Lee Langer AM is an Australian cricket coach and former cricketer. He is the current coach of the Australia men's national team, having been appointed to the role in May 2018 following a ball tampering scandal under the previous head coach, Darren Lehmann. A left-handed batsman, Langer is best known for his partnership with Matthew Hayden as Australia's test opening batsmen during the early and mid-2000s, considered one of the most successful ever. Representing Western Australia domestically, Langer played English county cricket for Middlesex and also Somerset. He holds the record for the most runs scored at first-class level by an Australian.
  Born in Perth, Western Australia, Langer excelled at cricket from an early age, representing Western Australia at under-age level, as well as the Australia under-19 team. He also won a scholarship to the Australian Cricket Academy at the Australian Institute of Sport in 1990. Langer made his first-class debut for Western Australia during the 1991–92 Sheffield Shield, and, after good form at state level, made his Test debut for Australia the following season at the age of 22, during the West Indies' 1992–93 tour.
context_section_description: Langer personally outscored the entire Pakistan side in the Perth Test of 2004.  He scored 191 and 97 in the first innings while Pakistan made 179 and 72.  It was the first occasion of a player being dismissed in both the 190s and 90s in a Test.
  He captained the Prime Minister's XI in December 2005 in their match against the West Indies.
  In the 2005 Ashes series, Langer top-scored for an unsuccessful Australian team, with 391 in the series. His top score was 105, scored in the final test.
  After this, pressure was mounting on the opening partnership of Hayden and Langer. Calls were coming to have the pair replaced by a younger duo, that would ensure the future and stability of the team to come. However, the partnership had support from the Australian selectors and was only disrupted in the 2006 Summer series when Langer was out with injury. He was replaced by Mike Hussey and Phil Jaques for two tests.
  Langer then suffered a number of injuries, increasing the pressure on selectors to drop him for rising star Phil Jaques. Langer was selected over Jaques for the 2007 Ashes series, which turned out to be his last. Langer scored an 80 and a century in the first test, but it was slim pickings to follow for him.
  Despite success in the Australian Test team, he did not get recalled to the one-day team, even after he was named as the domestic ING Cup's player of the season in 2002/03.
caption: Langer after the 2nd Test vs England, 5 December 2006
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