Australia coach Darren Lehmann Tuesday said an increasingly punishing cricket calendar may leave him with “no choice” but to hand over responsibility for the country’s one-day and Twenty20 sides, leaving him to focus solely on Tests.
In last two years, Lehman has missed several one-day and Twenty20 series in including the just-ended limited-overs tour of India, largely due to heavy workload.
“I think it will get to a stage where I’ll probably have to look at changing that set-up,” he told cricket.com.au.
“I know speaking to former England coach Andy Flower for example… he didn’t like it so much, but I think the way that the game is going, you’ve got no choice now.”
Though, he is in favour of splitting duties between Tests and limited-overs, rather than having three coaches for the game’s different formats.
“You can’t split them three ways — Tests, one-dayers and T20,” Lehmann said.
“Some of the time there’s no point another coach coming in, it’s just logistical nightmares, so I think you’d probably go white ball, red ball” he added.
