Abdullah719
T20I Captain
- Joined
- Apr 16, 2013
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"I'm comfortable we have a dressing room of players that can stand up to India" : Mickey Arthur
Mickey Arthur at a presser after India battered Pakistan in the Asia Cup:
"Everything (went wrong) really. It was a poor day, we were below par which was very disappointing"
"We're certainly not worried about Sarfaraz Ahmed's position in the batting lineup, he's playing well. It was just about taking responsibility today. We sort of batted outside our roles today which was disappointing. Imam's role is not to be running down at B Kumar in the 3rd over, it's not Saifi's role to be hitting over the top and getting caught out there. We've got X factor guys whose role it is to do that, if Fakhar or Asif get out that way, it's OK because that's what they need to do. But the other four batsmen need to take responsibility, I just thought we were soft, 158 dots out of 258 balls faced is not good enough"
"We've played some pretty good cricket, first time we've lost here in 17 games. We're coming off the back off 7 ODI wins, even though it was against different opposition, but still, we've played well. We didn't play well tonight and there's no excuses for that"
"Of course Amir's lack of wickets is concerning, I'd be lying if I said it wasn't. I had a long chat with him last night and I thought he came out and bowled well today. He hit the crease hard, he ran in well. He's been decelerating to the crease but he didn't do that today, he seemed more fluent and there was a bit more pace but of course there's more pressure on him"
"We were poor in both departments. On a wicket like that, you need to strike early but we didn't do that. We went away from our plans too quickly, the batters played outside our roles and the bowlers went away from the plans too quickly. We wanted to bowl hard lengths and make it tough to score. It was tough to score in the first 6 overs but then Shinwari decided to come around the wicket and bowl a bouncer with fine-leg up. We're gonna sit down and talk about that, it's not good enough"
"The Indian pacers bowled well, as you'd expect them to. They assessed the conditions well and hit back of a length and made it difficult for us to score. We were soft in our top order which wasn't good enough, we gifted a couple of early wickets and once we've done that and we're two down, it's going to take something special. We thought we could've defended 250-260 and that's what we set ourselves but it never materialised. I thought the Babar and Malik partnership was good, I thought they ran well between the wickets and that was probably the only highlight of the day"
"In terms of intent, I thought we were right up there in the field and our bowlers ran in early, there's no lack of intent or fight"
"India are a very good cricket team and so are we. They played better than us today and put us under pressure for longer periods"
"Whenever we go head to head with India, I'm comfortable that we have a dressing room of players that can stand up to them. On any given day, they can win. I still think it's 50/50, luckily this game is inconsequential"
"Shadab has a tight groin, he fell badly in the field. In West Indies, he got a couple of back spasms which just sort of reared their head tonight. Nothing serious though, nothing that should keep him out of a game"
"I think the pressure told on Imam, he had 2 off 8 balls and Fakhar had just faced a maiden, so he tried to get it going and tried to hit a ball that's not in his area. If he comes down, he needs to be going extra cover, not midwicket. In terms of Asif Ali, he called the run quickly but I think Shoaib was at fault, I think there was a bit of lazy running on the back end there by Shoaib, he didn't think the ball was coming to his end. I don't think it was Asif Ali's fault, I think Asif Ali will score runs for us and I'm comfortable that he's going to be a very good player"
Mickey Arthur at a presser after India battered Pakistan in the Asia Cup:
"Everything (went wrong) really. It was a poor day, we were below par which was very disappointing"
"We're certainly not worried about Sarfaraz Ahmed's position in the batting lineup, he's playing well. It was just about taking responsibility today. We sort of batted outside our roles today which was disappointing. Imam's role is not to be running down at B Kumar in the 3rd over, it's not Saifi's role to be hitting over the top and getting caught out there. We've got X factor guys whose role it is to do that, if Fakhar or Asif get out that way, it's OK because that's what they need to do. But the other four batsmen need to take responsibility, I just thought we were soft, 158 dots out of 258 balls faced is not good enough"
"We've played some pretty good cricket, first time we've lost here in 17 games. We're coming off the back off 7 ODI wins, even though it was against different opposition, but still, we've played well. We didn't play well tonight and there's no excuses for that"
"Of course Amir's lack of wickets is concerning, I'd be lying if I said it wasn't. I had a long chat with him last night and I thought he came out and bowled well today. He hit the crease hard, he ran in well. He's been decelerating to the crease but he didn't do that today, he seemed more fluent and there was a bit more pace but of course there's more pressure on him"
"We were poor in both departments. On a wicket like that, you need to strike early but we didn't do that. We went away from our plans too quickly, the batters played outside our roles and the bowlers went away from the plans too quickly. We wanted to bowl hard lengths and make it tough to score. It was tough to score in the first 6 overs but then Shinwari decided to come around the wicket and bowl a bouncer with fine-leg up. We're gonna sit down and talk about that, it's not good enough"
"The Indian pacers bowled well, as you'd expect them to. They assessed the conditions well and hit back of a length and made it difficult for us to score. We were soft in our top order which wasn't good enough, we gifted a couple of early wickets and once we've done that and we're two down, it's going to take something special. We thought we could've defended 250-260 and that's what we set ourselves but it never materialised. I thought the Babar and Malik partnership was good, I thought they ran well between the wickets and that was probably the only highlight of the day"
"In terms of intent, I thought we were right up there in the field and our bowlers ran in early, there's no lack of intent or fight"
"India are a very good cricket team and so are we. They played better than us today and put us under pressure for longer periods"
"Whenever we go head to head with India, I'm comfortable that we have a dressing room of players that can stand up to them. On any given day, they can win. I still think it's 50/50, luckily this game is inconsequential"
"Shadab has a tight groin, he fell badly in the field. In West Indies, he got a couple of back spasms which just sort of reared their head tonight. Nothing serious though, nothing that should keep him out of a game"
"I think the pressure told on Imam, he had 2 off 8 balls and Fakhar had just faced a maiden, so he tried to get it going and tried to hit a ball that's not in his area. If he comes down, he needs to be going extra cover, not midwicket. In terms of Asif Ali, he called the run quickly but I think Shoaib was at fault, I think there was a bit of lazy running on the back end there by Shoaib, he didn't think the ball was coming to his end. I don't think it was Asif Ali's fault, I think Asif Ali will score runs for us and I'm comfortable that he's going to be a very good player"
) were acting here, its a fun day today for us to witness this mauling 
