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"Every time we bring these young players in, they have come in and stood up" : Mickey Arthur
Pakistan Head Coach, Mickey Arthur speaking at end of the final ODI
"Its just about ability and without wanting to look at excuses, its about batting in these conditions"
"Our top order just hasnt done the job for this series"
"Haris Sohail came in and gave us a bit of stability"
"He showed us a lot which should go well for him in OD cricket in the future"
"All teams are building towards the WC and we've come off such a extendedly good run that sometimes losing allows for a bit of soul searching, and rejig the team and recheck that you are on the right page"
"With the World Cup coming up in a year's time, it is really important that the next One-Day team we pick is one that we really believe in that can shake the World Cup up"
"This is no discredit to the players in the dressing room because they have tried exceptionally hard"
"But we do need to reassess where we go and make sure we get it right the next time we come out, particularly in foreign conditions"
"I think this has solidified my thinking that we have to get it right"
"Every time we bring these young players in, they have come in and stood up"
"They have done it under pressure and they did it for us in the CT"
"Fakhar Zaman changed the tempo for us in CT by playing fearless cricket"
"The Shadab Khans, Faheem Ashrafs - these are the guys who dont fear anything"
"They play with that freedom and that's where we need to get to"
"When we play in our conditions, we dominate as our guys are comfortable and they play very well there"
"This is for them like playing in the North Pole but you live on the South Pole""Its so different but we got to be better than that"
"Every team in their own conditions is a very good team"
"You judge a team by the way they play away from home"
"NZ played exceptionally well away from home in India"
"Congrats to Mike and Kane as they have a pretty good unit going at the moment"
"The blueprint for us doesnt change"
"Yes when I coached SA, it was a different blueprint to Pakistan"
"Our blueprint that we have with Pakistan was good enough to win us the CT"
"It was good enough to win us 9 ODIs in a row"
"We havent played that well; our guys have come out of a lot of T20 and I am not making excuses here, we havent adapted well enough and played well enough and thats how it is"
"The blueprint for us remains exactly the same but its the execution and the personnel who fit the blueprint is always the challenge"
"At the halfway stage we did think we would win"
"We had 2 partnerships today, and they came for us in the lower order"
"if one of those partnerships comes in the top-order, then we would end up sneaking home as we know the firepower we have at the backend"
"The bounce in NZ is considerably steeper than what our players are used to"
"We have prepared well and we travel around with this big slab that the players use but that prep doesnt replicate [the situation] under pressure"
"Its a different scoring area in NZ; our guys are used to scoring off the front foot or square of the wicket; In NZ, its predominantly off the back foot and if you do play on the front foot, you have to hit straight"
"But, we have players who have played outside Pakistan so that's no excuse whatsoever"
Pakistan Head Coach, Mickey Arthur speaking at end of the final ODI
"Its just about ability and without wanting to look at excuses, its about batting in these conditions"
"Our top order just hasnt done the job for this series"
"Haris Sohail came in and gave us a bit of stability"
"He showed us a lot which should go well for him in OD cricket in the future"
"All teams are building towards the WC and we've come off such a extendedly good run that sometimes losing allows for a bit of soul searching, and rejig the team and recheck that you are on the right page"
"With the World Cup coming up in a year's time, it is really important that the next One-Day team we pick is one that we really believe in that can shake the World Cup up"
"This is no discredit to the players in the dressing room because they have tried exceptionally hard"
"But we do need to reassess where we go and make sure we get it right the next time we come out, particularly in foreign conditions"
"I think this has solidified my thinking that we have to get it right"
"Every time we bring these young players in, they have come in and stood up"
"They have done it under pressure and they did it for us in the CT"
"Fakhar Zaman changed the tempo for us in CT by playing fearless cricket"
"The Shadab Khans, Faheem Ashrafs - these are the guys who dont fear anything"
"They play with that freedom and that's where we need to get to"
"When we play in our conditions, we dominate as our guys are comfortable and they play very well there"
"This is for them like playing in the North Pole but you live on the South Pole""Its so different but we got to be better than that"
"Every team in their own conditions is a very good team"
"You judge a team by the way they play away from home"
"NZ played exceptionally well away from home in India"
"Congrats to Mike and Kane as they have a pretty good unit going at the moment"
"The blueprint for us doesnt change"
"Yes when I coached SA, it was a different blueprint to Pakistan"
"Our blueprint that we have with Pakistan was good enough to win us the CT"
"It was good enough to win us 9 ODIs in a row"
"We havent played that well; our guys have come out of a lot of T20 and I am not making excuses here, we havent adapted well enough and played well enough and thats how it is"
"The blueprint for us remains exactly the same but its the execution and the personnel who fit the blueprint is always the challenge"
"At the halfway stage we did think we would win"
"We had 2 partnerships today, and they came for us in the lower order"
"if one of those partnerships comes in the top-order, then we would end up sneaking home as we know the firepower we have at the backend"
"The bounce in NZ is considerably steeper than what our players are used to"
"We have prepared well and we travel around with this big slab that the players use but that prep doesnt replicate [the situation] under pressure"
"Its a different scoring area in NZ; our guys are used to scoring off the front foot or square of the wicket; In NZ, its predominantly off the back foot and if you do play on the front foot, you have to hit straight"
"But, we have players who have played outside Pakistan so that's no excuse whatsoever"
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