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| Full name | Darren Scott Lehmann | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | (1970-02-05)5 February 1970 (age 56) Gawler, South Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nickname | Boof | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Left-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Slow left arm orthodox | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Top-order batter | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Relations | Jake Lehmann (son) Craig White (brother-in-law) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Test debut (cap 378) | 25 March 1998 v India | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last Test | 26 December 2004 v Pakistan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ODI debut (cap 128) | 30 August 1996 v Sri Lanka | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last ODI | 6 February 2005 v Pakistan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ODI shirt no. | 25 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Darren Scott Lehmann (born 5 February 1970) is an Australian cricket coach and formercricketer who coached theAustralian national team.[1] He is currently head coach atNorthamptonshire County Cricket Club. Lehmann made hisODI debut in 1996 andTest debut in 1998. He was on the fringes of national selection for the entirety of the 1990s, and only became a regular in the ODI team in 2001 and Test team in late 2002, before being dropped in early 2005. Primarily an aggressive left-handed batsman, Lehmann was also a part-timeleft arm orthodox bowler, and gained renown for his disregard for physical fitness and modern dietary regimes. He announced his retirement fromfirst-class cricket in November 2007.[2] Lehmann was a member of the Australian team that won the1999 Cricket World Cup and the2003 Cricket World Cup, where in the1999 final, he scored the winning boundary, and took the winning catch in the2003 final.
During his time coaching Australia, he led the team to be the winners of the2015 Cricket World Cup. He also coached the IPL teamsDeccan Chargers from 2009 to 2012 andKings XI Punjab in 2013. He also coachedQueensland during the 2010/11 KFC Twenty20 Big Bash, in place ofTrevor Barsby who had resigned. In June 2013, Lehmann replacedMickey Arthur as the coach of the Australian cricket team, only two weeks before the2013 Ashes series.[3] Although Australia lost that series 3-nil, Lehmann went on to coach the side to a 5-nil victory in the 2013–14 series less than five months later.
Lehmann stepped down as head coach after the fourth test match against South Africa in March 2018, following theball tampering scandal which occurred during the match.[4][5] He was originally thought to have been involved in the scandal, howeverCricket Australia cleared him of blame at the conclusion of their investigation.[6]
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Of German-Australian descent, Lehmann was a junior representative forSouth Australian National Football League (SANFL) clubCentral District as well as playing cricket. Lehmann left school at the age of 16 to work on the assembly line ofHolden car manufacturers inElizabeth, South Australia.[1] He declined selection to the first intake of the newly formedAustralian Cricket Academy, a full-time cricket centre, citing his enjoyment of the factory life.[1] Lehmann entered the first-class scene as a 17-year-old in the 1987/88 season forSouth Australia, playing one match againstVictoria at theMelbourne Cricket Ground after bothTim May andPeter Sleep were called into the national team. After making 10, Lehmann was omitted upon their return and did not play any further part in the season. In 1988/89, South Australia were at the bottom of the ladder, when coachBarry Richards called Lehmann into the team, playing againstWestern Australia at theWACA. Lehmann remembered little of the match; after being struck in the right temple by aBruce Reidbouncer, he was knocked unconscious and temporarily ceased breathing. Lehmann made his mark in the following match againstNew South Wales Blues atAdelaide Oval, reaching 50, but the innings was marred by the manner in which it was ended. Going for a quick single, Lehmann collided with bowlerGeoff Lawson and wasrun out after falling over. However, Richards and South Australian captainDavid Hookes claimed that Lawson had tripped Lehmann, leading to a confrontation between the two teams.[citation needed]
In 1989/90, Lehmann came into contention for national selection, after scoring 228 runs at the age of 19 in a match against New South Wales in that season. He also scored a century against the touringNew Zealand cricket team and followed that with centuries in three consecutiveSheffield Shield matches. Having scored over 700 runs in the first half of the season, Lehmann was drafted into the Australian squad for the New Year's Test againstPakistan at theSydney Cricket Ground after both openersDavid Boon andGeoff Marsh were injured. As Lehmann was not an opener,Mike Veletta andTom Moody were selected, and he was relegated to being 12th man. Lehmann was also called into the squad for the triangular ODI series, but after being unused, he was replaced byMark Waugh.[citation needed]
The following year, Lehmann was lured to move to Victoria byJohn Elliott andIan Collins, then directors of theCarlton Football Club with a lucrative deal for him to play district cricket for Carlton, as well as the Victorian state team. Lehmann believed that he had a better chance of international selection, feeling that selectors disregarded batting performances atAdelaide Oval on the perception that it was a flat track. Lehmann was not, however, rewarded with international selection, but he did participate in a Shield victory in 1990/91. He was fortunate to play in the final, having needed facial surgery prior to the match after being struck in the nose during a training session. Following another season, Lehmann expressed dissatisfaction, and returned to South Australia.[citation needed]
From the 1993/94 season until 2007/08, Lehmann played domestic cricket for his home state,South Australia, as well as forYorkshire in England (from 1997 until 2006). During this time, Lehmann had great success as a player for both teams and he captained them both; South Australia from 1998/99 until 2006/07 and Yorkshire in 2002.
Playing for South Australia in this period, Lehmann scored over 10,500 runs in 107 first-class appearances for the state, at an average of around 55.[7] In 1995/96 he was a part of the South Australian team that claimed theSheffield Shield. He made 37 centuries with a top score of 301 not out against Western Australia at theAdelaide Oval in 2005/06. He also took 44 wickets at an average of 38.06.[8] He held the record for the most first-class runs scored and first-class games played before selection to the Australian Test team prior toMichael Hussey's Test debut in 2005. He currently holds the record for the most runs in the history of theSheffield Shield/Pura Cup with 13635, over 2000 more than the second highest run scorer,Jamie Cox.[9] Whilst he had great success as a player, his captaincy record was not as distinguished; South Australia did not win any silverware under his captaincy and he quit the role at the end of the 2006/07 season after South Australia managed to win only one Pura Cup game. Lehmann announced his retirement on 19 November 2007 citing injury concerns as the main reason behind his decision to quit.[10] He ended his limited-overs career for South Australia on 21 November with an unbeaten 126 from 104 balls in an unbroken 236 partnership withMatthew Elliott (a South Australian record for any wicket inList A cricket) to complete the highest successful run-chase in Australian List A cricket so far.[11] His final first-class innings for South Australia was a man-of-the-match winning 167 against Western Australia the following weekend.
From 1997 until 2006, Lehmann represented Yorkshire as an overseas player. He is by far the most successful overseas player to represent the club since the members first voted to allow overseas players in 1992, having played 88County Championship games, scoring 8871 runs at an average of 68.76.[12] In 2001 he helped Yorkshire to their first County Championship title since 1968, with 1416 runs in 13 games at an average of 83.29.[7] He scored 26 centuries with a top score of 339 against Durham in 2006 during his final game for the club, helping Yorkshire to avoid relegation by a single point. It is the highest individual first-class innings atHeadingley, surpassingDon Bradman's 334 against England in 1930,[13] and the second highest for Yorkshire behindGeorge Hirst's 341 against Leicestershire in 1905.[14] He also holds the record for the highest one-day score for Yorkshire, 191 from 103 balls against Nottinghamshire at Scarborough in 2001.[15] He took 61 wickets at an average of 32.00 in County Championship games.[16] As with South Australia, his captaincy record was not as distinguished as his playing record. He captained Yorkshire only in the 2002 season during which they were relegated to the second division of the County Championship. They did, however, win theCheltenham and Gloucester Trophy, the 50-over-a-side limited overs competition, under his captaincy. Lehmann was a very popular member of the Yorkshire team amongst both the fans and the club hierarchy.[17] He stated at the time that he would like to return to Yorkshire in a coaching role after his retirement from playing for South Australia.[18]
Lehmann had only limited opportunities at the international level.[citation needed] His body shape, relative lack of fitness and physical condition, while never dulling his run-scoring capabilities, meant he was never a favourite of the Australian hierarchy, and notably never saw eye-to-eye with former coachBob Simpson in the early-mid-1990s.[citation needed] Simpson was regarded as one of the best fielders to have played the game, and was renowned for his heavy emphasis on fielding and fitness, the weakest aspects of Lehmann's game.[citation needed]
With Simpson's retirement at the end of the1996 Cricket World Cup, Lehmann made hisODI debut later in the year inSharjah after injuries to other players. He was a sporadic member of the team until the 1997/98 Australian season, when captainMark Taylor was dropped from the team. Lehmann then became a semi-regular member of the ODI team, and also toured India in early 1998.
Lehmann made his Test debut in the Third Test againstIndia in March 1998 inBangalore, afterSteve Waugh suffered a hamstring injury. Lehmann scored 52 on debut, as well as claiming Indian captainMohammad Azharuddin while bowling. Selectors were impressed with his performance,[citation needed] and when Waugh returned from injury on the tour of Pakistan later that year,Ricky Ponting was instead dropped. Lehmann scored 98 in the First Test inRawalpindi, but an injury forced him out of the Second Test inPeshawar in which Taylor scored a (then) Australian record 334 not out on a flat pitch in a high-scoring drawn match. Lehmann failed to perform in the final Test inKarachi and, despite scoring his maiden ODI century, he was dropped for the first two Tests of the 1998/99 Ashes series. Ponting was recalled by the selectors, under the justification of "horses for courses", as he was regarded as a superior player of pace bowling but weaker in spin, with the first two Tests being held on bouncy wickets inBrisbane andPerth. However, failures by Ponting in the first three Tests saw Lehmann recalled to the team for the final two Tests in Melbourne and Sydney. Further failures by Lehmann in those Tests saw him dropped in early 1999 from the Test team to tour theWest Indies, who had a pure pace attack.[citation needed]
Lehmann retained his position, however, in the ODI team, and scored another century during the West Indies tour. He went on to the1999 World Cup, where he played in every match bar one where he was injured, and hit the winning runs in the final. However, upon his return to Australia, he was dropped from the ODI team in favour ofDamien Martyn, who was the reserve batsman. Lehmann spent the 1999/2000 international season out of the team, and was not given an opportunity again until the 2000/01 season. During that season Australia was in dominant form, winning all five Tests. CaptainSteve Waugh took the opportunity to introduce a rotation system for the ODI series, and Lehmann was allowed regular matches as all members of the team were periodically rested. Despite topping the averages and Steve Waugh having the lowest among the batsmen during the round-robin stages of the triangular tournament, Lehmann was dropped for the finals series, as he was the least senior batsman in the team. Lehmann did not receive further chances in the Test format either, asMatthew Hayden,Damien Martyn andSimon Katich were all recalled in 2000 and 2001 when other players were dropped. Following Hayden's heavy scoring in the 2001Border–Gavaskar Trophy in India, he was afforded a place in the ODI squad, and Lehmann was removed altogether from the squad during the 2001/02 season. Australia however faltered during the campaign, and Lehmann was recalled for the final match of the series, in which he top scored. After Australia failed to qualify for the finals, batsmenMark andSteve Waugh were dropped from the ODI team, and Lehmann's ODI position became permanent.[citation needed]
Later in 2002, Mark Waugh was dropped from the Test team, and Lehmann was recalled for the first time in almost four years. After playing three Tests without posting a large score, Lehmann was injured, andMartin Love replaced him.[citation needed] Lehmann came under more pressure upon his return, when during an ODI againstSri Lanka, he had an error of judgment and was run out. Upon returning to the dressing room, he made an offensive racial comment which saw him banned for five ODI matches, becoming the first player banned forracial vilification.[19] After missing the first part of the2003 Cricket World Cup, Lehmann went on to take the winning catch in the final against India inJohannesburg. Lehmann's Test spot was spared when Martyn was forced out due to a finger injury, with Love and Lehmann playing in the middle order on the subsequent tour of the West Indies. Lehmann then posted his maiden Test century on the tour, and on the winter Test series againstBangladesh in northern Australia, Lehmann scored consecutive centuries to solidify his position in the team. His Test career was again put on hold, when he was injured in November againstZimbabwe, allowing Katich to play in his place and score a century and top score in both innings in the Fourth Test against India at theSydney Cricket Ground to stake a claim for Lehmann's spot. However, Steve Waugh retired after the series, and both players were included on the tour to Sri Lanka. There, Lehmann scored consecutive centuries on turning tracks againstMuttiah Muralitharan to help Australia to a 3–0 clean sweep despite conceding a first innings lead in each of the matches.
Lehmann's position was again called into question on the 2004 tour to India whenMichael Clarke had an opportunity to debut inBangalore on the 2004 India tour, whenRicky Ponting broke his thumb, and Clarke scored 151 in his first innings in Test matches. When Ponting returned, the Australian selectors were obliged to select Clarke, meaning that they had to drop Lehmann or Katich. Lehmann publicly offered to be dropped following a run of poor form, but the selectors did not take the offer, and the younger Katich was instead dropped. Lehmann stayed on briefly, but after two ungainly dismissals to Pakistani pacemanShoaib Akhtar in the first Two Tests of the 2004/05 series, in which Lehmann was out of position after wandering across the crease, he was dropped in favour ofShane Watson for the Sydney Test. Another maligned shot selection in the following ODI series, attempting toreverse sweepShahid Afridi first ball, resulted in his dismissal from the ODI team, with Katich again promoted. Lehmann was unable to reclaim a spot as Australia headed towards the 2005 Ashes series looking for batsmen to combat an England team fielding four pace bowlers, including three at the high speed of 90 mph (140 km/h), and he was never again on theCricket Australia's contracted players list. In November 2007, he announced his retirement, stating that "Physically and mentally I've had enough".[2]
He published his autobiography,Worth the Wait, in 2004.[20]
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In 2008, Lehmann toured with the Cricket Australia Centre of Excellence as an assistant coach. After theDeccan Chargers disastrous first season, he took charge of them as coach – replacing former India player Robin Singh;Adam Gilchrist was named captain replacingVVS Laxman. Following the below-par performance in the inaugural season, and finishing at the bottom, Deccan then staged an inspired comeback in 2009 by winning the second IPL season. Subsequent to an undefeated run in the initial league stage, the team suffered minor setbacks by losing some close matches. However, the return ofAndrew Symonds,Rohit Sharma regaining form, and the continuing exuberance of CaptainAdam Gilchrist, bolstered the side. Some luck came the Charger's way towards the end of the league stage, withKings XI Punjab andRajasthan Royals losing key matches, enabling Deccan to reach the semi-finals. During the semi-finals against theDelhi Daredevils (who were at the top of the table), few gave the Chargers more than an outside chance of winning. Nevertheless, and against the odds, Gilchrist scored a sensational 85 off just 35 balls to put the Daredevils out of the competition, thus giving the Chargers their first IPL final against theRoyal Challengers Bangalore. In the final match, Gilchrist was out for a duck in the first over, however the Chargers managed to recover and posted a total of 143 for the loss of 6 wickets; it was felt that a good defending total would have been a further 20 to 30 runs. In the second innings the Chargers came out with all guns blazing right from the first ball, and their spirited effort ensured that they successfully defended the total, winning the game by 6 runs and lifting the prized IPL trophy.
On account of emerging as the winners of the 2009 season of the Indian Premier League, the team participated in the inaugural edition of theT20 Champions League, along with two other Indian teams. These were the runners-up of the IPL in 2009 – the Royal Challengers Bangalore and the Delhi Daredevils, the toppers of the league-stage points table. The Deccan Chargers were knocked-out in the group stages after losing to theSomerset Sabres andTrinidad & Tobago, who they were drawn against in Group A.
After winning the IPL in 2009, there were great expectations of Chargers for 2010. Disappointingly, the team opened with a loss in their inaugural match against KKR, but subsequently won next three matches. Unfortunately, the Chargers then went on to lose their next five matches. This situation caused many to doubt whether the Chargers would be able to make it into next round, but they did so by winning the next five consecutive matches, which qualified them for the play-offs. However the Chargers lost both games in the play-offs (Semi-finals), and were relegated to third place.
Before the start of the 2011 Auction of players, the Chargers decided not to retain any of their existing team, puttingall of them up for auction. The much anticipated Auction in January not only lived up to expectations, but exceeded them in many ways. The new Deccan team started the 2011 campaign by losing their first two games, but managed to win their next match. Thereafter the team started losing badly, and despite winning some games, were consequentially eliminated from the competition. The team managed to bounce back and showed some pride by winning their final three matches, although these results had no effect on the other teams' chances for qualifying. The Charger's disappointing performance was clearly due to the inexperience of the new squad, and especially to the lack of internationally experienced Indian batsmen. Fans of DC have criticised management for not retaining Rohit Sharma during player the Auction. Deccan finally got to play IPL matches at their home ground after almost three years, but their dismal performances continued at Hyderabad, with but a single win against RCB being the only exception. However, in the away matches, the Chargers did manage to beatDelhi Daredevils,Mumbai Indians,Kolkata Knight Riders,Pune Warriors, andKings XI. They ended on a positive note with three consecutive wins, but were unable to rise above seventh position in the league standings.
In the 2012Indian Premier League competition the Deccan Chargers named a new fielding coachTrevor Penney, replacingMike Young. The Chargers failed to play consistently in 2012, with consecutive defeats – some by narrow margins.Shikhar Dhawan,Dale Steyn, andCameron White were the only players who managed to help the team put up a fight. The team experienced weakness in the bowling and fielding departments, with fast bowlerIshant Sharma being ruled out due to injury, and spinnerPragyan Ojha traded to the Mumbai Indians. Deccan finished eighth out of the nine teams in the league stage points table, after languishing at the bottom for most of the season. TheDeccan Chargers had come into the 2012 season being characterized as 'underdogs', and are yet to lose that name.
Lehmann expressed interest in taking up the England coach's job, which was up for grabs afterPeter Moores was sacked in first week of January 2009. Lehmann was not the first Australian whose name had been brought-up for discussion of the English job, as Tom Moody was also linked to the position. South Africa's Graham Ford, the Kent director of cricket, had also expressed an interest in filling the post. After having his name connected to the English cricket team, Lehmann was also linked to theNew Zealand cricket team, as they were searching for coach as well, to succeedAndy Moles who had resigned in October 2009. Lehmann,Mark Greatbatch, andJeff Crowe were shortlisted as candidates for the post with New Zealand Cricket, with Lehmann eventually losing-out to Greatbatch. Lehmann was then named coach of the Queensland team afterTrevor Barsby's sudden exit in 2010. He took over as coach of the Twenty20 side to prepare for its opening match against Victoria. Under Lehmann's coaching, Queensland won the 2011/12 (110th) season of the Sheffield Shield, the Australian domestic first-class cricket competition; this was only their seventh victory since joining that competition in 1926. They had won six out of their ten Shield matches, lost two, and drew two matches. At the same time as he took up coaching Queensland, he also signed to theBrisbane Heat side, which competed in an expanded eight-team domesticTwenty20 competition. Once again Lehmann's old mate in the Australian teamShane Warne suggested to Cricket Australia that Lehmann would be a perfect coach for the young Australian cricket team. Warne also believed his old-school approach would be good for either the vacant head coach role, or a position on the selection panel.
Lehmann was appointed the coach of the IPL Kings XI Punjab franchise for 2013, replacingAdam Gilchrist who was coach (and captain) in 2012; he was himself was replaced in 2014 bySanjay Bangar. As well as previously coaching the now defunct Deccan Chargers franchise, Lehmann had also played for the Rajasthan Royals in the inaugural IPL edition in 2008.
In June 2013, Lehmann was appointed as head coach of Australia, replacingMickey Arthur who had suffered a bad result in theChampions Trophy. His first assignment was the Ashes series in England, which Australia lost 3–0, however they won the ODI series.
On 25 December 2017, Lehmann stated that he would not seek renewal on his contract after the end of 2019.[21]
Lehmann was suspected of involvement inaltering the conditions of the ball, along withCameron Bancroft, skipperSteve Smith, and vice-captainDavid Warner, on thethird day of the third Test against South Africa on 24 March 2018.[22][23] After an investigation byCricket Australia, Lehmann was cleared of involvement. However, he later announced that he would resign as head coach of Australia after the fourth and final Test match of the series inJohannesburg.[4][24][25][26]
In March 2019, Lehmann was named head coach ofBrisbane Heat, a team in theBig Bash League. In July 2021, he stepped down as head coach of the Brisbane Heat to become the assistant coach of the team.[27] In 2019, he was named head coach byNorthern Superchargers, a team in 'The Hundred' tournament.[28] In January 2022, he resigned from the post, citingCOVID-19 restrictions as the main reason behind this decision.[29]
In October 2024, Lehmann was appointed head coach atNorthamptonshire County Cricket Club.[30][31]
Lehmann's batting technique was quite unconventional; taking guard outside leg stump, and, just before a ball was bowled, stepping back and across toward and sometimes past off stump. This peculiar technique meant that if the ball was short in pitch, he did not need to step back any further. Lehmann was noted for his play against spin, and was a useful left-arm orthodox spinner himself, as evidenced by his match figures of 6/92 againstSri Lanka inColombo in 2004. He was relatively accurate, but had little ability to turn the ball and used a flat trajectory.[citation needed]
Lehmann is married to Andrea White, the sister of his Victorian, and later Yorkshire, teammate and English Test playerCraig White. He has two children with his previous wife Emma, one of whom,Jake, has played first-class cricket.
In 2012 a statue of Lehmann by sculptorKen Martin was unveiled at Adelaide Oval.[32]
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