Justin Langer AM Travels from WA
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Justin Langer AM's Biography
Coach of the Australian cricket team Justin Langer AM is a former Western Australian of the Year in 2014 for Sport and played Test Cricket for Australia.
Until the announcement of his retirement from test cricket in 2007 Justin was one of Australia’s great top-order batsmen. Originally playing at number 3 he moved to opener in 2001 and played 105 test matches scoring 7,696 runs including 23 test centuries. Few have worn the baggy green cap with greater pride.
Along with Matthew Hayden, Justin formed a hugely successful opening partnership, which ranks as the best in Australian history and featured six double century stands.
Justin and Matthew drew much satisfaction from their combined efforts and often described their on-field partnership as a “team within a team”. It was therefore fitting that when Justin played his last game for Australia in the final match of the 2006/07 Ashes Series both Matthew and Justin were at the crease to score the winning runs which returned the Ashes to Australia.
Justin was an integral member of what has been described as one of Australia’s “greatest ever” test teams, and the side’s 5-0 victory over England in the 2006/07 Ashes series has only ever been achieved once before by an Australian team in the past 80 years. For most of his career Justin has played with some of the legends of Australian cricket – Steve Waugh, Mark Waugh, Shane Warne, Glen McGrath, Ricky Ponting, Adam Gilchrist, Mark Taylor and Allan Border, just to name a few.
Whilst Justin has retired from test cricket he continued to play domestic cricket for Western Australia in the 2007/08 season and also played English County Cricket as captain of Somerset during the 2007, 2008 and 2009 English summer seasons. Justin also captained W.A. from 2003 to early 2007. He retired from playing for Western Australia (Western Warriors) in March, 2008. In November 2009 he was appointed Batting-Mentoring coach of the Australian test cricket team and in May 2011 was appointed Assistant Coach.
Langer was appointed Head Coach of the Perth Scorchers in November 2012 and has guided the club to three consecutive BIG Finals and premierships in BBL|03 and BBL|04. Langer served as batting coach with the Australian team for three years. One of the greats of WA cricket, Langer retired as the highest run-scorer for WA in first class cricket and was also the first WA player to reach 100 one-day matches for the State.
Justin’s highest ever score in test cricket was 250 at the MCG in a Boxing Day test against England, and was one of three double centuries he scored during his test career. His individual tally of 23 test hundreds saw him overtake former cricketing icons Ian Chappell, Neil Harvey and Doug Walters. In 2004 Justin was the highest run maker in world cricket with a total of 1,481 runs.
In July 2009 whilst playing county cricket in the UK he surpassed Sir Donald Bradman as the most prolific batsman in Australian cricket with a total of 28,068 first class runs.
Justin made his debut for Western Australia in 1990 and made his Australian debut in the 1992/03 season at Adelaide Oval – Australia vs West Indies. He has toured England, West Indies, Pakistan, India, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Sharjah, and New Zealand with the Australian test team and was a member of the squad named as the 2002 Laureus World Team of the Year in Monte Carlo.
Justin is patron of The Make a Difference Foundation, Solaris Care, Jason McLean Foundation, Children’s Leukaemia & Cancer Research in Western Australia, and an ambassador for the Cerebral Palsy Association, Peel Health Campus and the Jack Dunn Foundation. He was named as a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for his services to Australian cricket and the community as patron of a large group of charities in the 2008 Queens’ Birthday Honours List.
Justin’s success is the result of hard work and a strong determined will. His sincerity, strength of purpose, humour and broad appeal has also made him a much sought after corporate speaker. His presentations titled ‘The Power of Passion’ or ‘Seeing the Sunrise’ include a bridge between the business world and the world of competitive sport, paralleling the highs and lows, the fears that must be overcome, and the largely unseen preparation and teamwork required for success.
He has addressed conferences, seminars, corporate and government events in most Australian states, Bangkok, London and South Africa.
SPECIAL CORONA VIRUS related speech topics:
• Managing/Leading through a Crisis (Australian cricket: from South Africa Sandpapergate to
Now)
• Dealing with Pressure
• Building and Re-building a Culture.
• Working Together as a Team (We not Me)