{"id":54452,"date":"2019-02-08T10:53:54","date_gmt":"2019-02-08T10:53:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=54452"},"modified":"2019-02-08T10:53:55","modified_gmt":"2019-02-08T10:53:55","slug":"australias-bowling-coach-saker-quits-ahead-of-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/australias-bowling-coach-saker-quits-ahead-of-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia\u2019s bowling coach Saker quits ahead of World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sydney<br> Australia\u2019s bowling coach David Saker quit on Thursday just months out from the World Cup and an Ashes tour to England \u201cfor the best interests of the team\u201d.Saker, who performed a similar role with England before joining the Australian set-up in 2016, resigned after lengthy talks with coach Justin Langer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cDavid and I have had ongoing discussions over the past nine months about his role with the team, and we agreed it\u2019s the right time to head in a different direction in the best interests of the team,\u201d Langer said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI\u2019d like to thank David for his significant contribution, in particular in the role he has played in helping develop a core group of Australian pace bowlers.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Saker, who has nurtured the likes of Mitchell Starc, Josh Hazlewood and Pat Cummins, said he had enjoyed his time with the Australian team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI\u2019d like to thank Cricket Australia for the opportunity to help coach the Australian men\u2019s team over the past three seasons,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI\u2019ve enjoyed my time with the team, in particular working closely with a great group of fast bowlers and in time will look forward to a new coaching role.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sydney Australia\u2019s bowling coach David Saker quit on Thursday just months out from the World Cup and an Ashes tour to England \u201cfor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54453,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54452"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54454,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54452\/revisions\/54454"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}