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Left-handed batsman (LHB)
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Right-arm medium (RM)
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100
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(born
21 November 1970 in
Perth ) is an
Australia n
Cricket er, more specificially a left-handed
Batsman . He is best known for being
Matthew Hayden 's opening partner in
Test Match es. Langer is also a solid gully fielder, and was very occasionally the wicketkeeper for the
Australian One-day team.
He can play both aggressively and defensively, but has a reputation for grinding away. However, in a recent Wisden Australia article, Langer's Test strike rate was shown to be superior to that of noted strokemakers
Mark Waugh and
Damien Martyn . Langer was a number 3 batsman until 2001 when he was dropped after failing to convert a series of starts during Australia's 2-1 loss in India. Shortly after though, he replaced
Michael Slater at the top of the order for the final 2001
Ashes Series Test where he celebrated his return with a century. He has not looked back since: as an opening batsman, he averages 52.38 and has scored 14 centuries in 44 matches; previously he scored 7 centuries in 41 matches at an average of 39.04.
In
November 1999 at
Bellerive Oval in
Hobart , he shared a
match-winning 238-run partnership with
Adam Gilchrist to rescue Australia from 5/126 chasing a victory target of 369 against
Pakistan . The century scored in this innings was scored in a long 388 minutes, an Australian record. Curiously, Langer once held the Australian record for the fastest Test fifty in terms of balls faced (42 balls).
Langer is currently a member of the Australian Test team but not the one-day team, despite being named as the
ING Cup 's player of the season in 2002/03. Langer is the current captain of the
Western Warriors .
He played county cricket for
Middlesex CCC (
1998 -
2000 ) and was captain in
2000 .
He captained the
Prime Minister's XI in December 2005 in their match against the
West Indies .
