About Me
Sam Langston
TeacherTamworth, Australia
Favourite players: Mark Taylor, McGrath and Brett Lee
Favourite grounds:
All-time cricket hero: Mark Taylor
Favourite bat: My old Kookaburra
Most memorable moment in cricket:
The 1993 dismissal of Craig McDermont off Courtney Walsh. It totally hit his helmet, not his glove! We were robbed.
What’s the best cricket advice you’ve ever received:
Always lead with your top hand when playing a straight bat and always back up your batting partner for the quick single.
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Q: Australian cricket’s long-form future is hanging by a thread, even if most don’t want to see it. We keep talking about the Baggy Green like it’s untouchable, but with the way we’re treating the Shield, our coaching pathways and grassroots, it’s anything but safe. This post is a hard look at why — and what happens if we keep ignoring the warning signs.
https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/1841/sam-langston/blog/3138/the-baggy-green-is-sacred-so-why-arent-we-protecting-it
blog post
A shrinking Shield, scattergun coaching and no county pathway mean Australia’s next Test side might be unrecognisable — and nowhere near as good. Keep ignoring it, and we’ll pay for i ...
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Q: Hi all. I’ve recently emailed Ben Oliver at CA High Performance Team, sharing my ideas on how to grow long-form cricket.
I can’t post the whole email due to it being too long but this is the exec summary of the email. I’ve put a link to the full email at the bottom of the post. Let me know if the link doesn’t work.
Just posting to share ideas and have a conversation.
Executive summary
I’m writing to outline a practical, long-term strategy to protect and elevate Australia’s Test dominance.
This approach embeds:
Expansion of the Sheffield Shield to 12–14 rounds to deepen red-ball resilience and grow selection data.
Formal CA-funded county placements, paying full player contracts to systematically embed 6–8 emerging Australians under Dukes balls.
A roaming CA development coach across counties to maintain technical standards and directly manage workloads.
Carefully structured BBL participation for this specific cohort to preserve multi-day habits.
These initiatives together form a world-leading system that no other Test nation is pursuing, directly shaping players like Hunt, Kellaway, Konstas, Bartlett, Sutherland, Murphy, Kuhnemann and Webster into a sustained Ashes and WTC force.
I can’t post the whole email due to it being too long but this is the exec summary of the email. I’ve put a link to the full email at the bottom of the post. Let me know if the link doesn’t work.
Just posting to share ideas and have a conversation.
Executive summary
I’m writing to outline a practical, long-term strategy to protect and elevate Australia’s Test dominance.
This approach embeds:
Expansion of the Sheffield Shield to 12–14 rounds to deepen red-ball resilience and grow selection data.
Formal CA-funded county placements, paying full player contracts to systematically embed 6–8 emerging Australians under Dukes balls.
A roaming CA development coach across counties to maintain technical standards and directly manage workloads.
Carefully structured BBL participation for this specific cohort to preserve multi-day habits.
These initiatives together form a world-leading system that no other Test nation is pursuing, directly shaping players like Hunt, Kellaway, Konstas, Bartlett, Sutherland, Murphy, Kuhnemann and Webster into a sustained Ashes and WTC force.
https://1drv.ms/b/c/fed1def0c363cd47/ESi3l4q5r4BCtKkjTpxsLksBwB5UVUeX32T8MJ4PWht60Q
