It was a bit of kick in the face to offer Justin Langer a six-month contract: David Warner

Justin Langer's "mini-contract" by Cricket Australia has David Warner saying it is clearly a "kick on the face" where Warner also stated that in his tenure, Langer had lost quite a "fair few players."

Langer's departure at the end of last summer came up after Cricket Australia took on board concerns over the coach's intensity at the end of his initial four-year deal. He was offered a new six-month contract with no chance of an extension, which he promptly rejected and resigned. Ever since this incident, Langer has on multiple occassions vented out his anger and dissapointment in several interviews.

Many of the Australian cricketers also had their say in Langer's contract issue. While Tim Paine went onto label the mini-contract as "embarrassing", "unprofessional" and "a disgrace" in his autobiography, claiming CA took the easy way out knowing Langer would not accept it, David Warner had a more reasonable explaination on his thoughts about the contract. 

The Test, a documentary on Australian cricket, which will have its main focus on the rise, build up and fallout of Justin Langer as a coach last year is set be released on January 13 on Prime Video. 

"He wanted to keep coaching. It was a bit of a kick in the face to offer him a six-month contract. He lost a fair few players, and probably the wrong players," Warner commented in the documentary.

Pat Cummins' take on Justin Langer saga

Australia's Test captain Pat Cummins however, had a different take. The 29-year-old said that probably the way Langer's tenure as Australia coach ended was quite ugly, but Langer's removal from the post couldn't possibly be a shocker. The 52-year-old did have a great contribution in the revamping the team after the ball-tampering scandal and rebuilding the image of the side, but Langer's extreme moodswings, erratic behaviour didn't always go down too well with the players.

In the first episode of the documentary, Cummins says players were walking on eggshells around the coach, while Usman Khawaja reveals others were afraid of Langer.