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Mickey Arthur speaking to PCB:
"Not ideal, and to be brutally honest, I don’t think our skills have been where they’ve needed to be in those last three games. What we do know, though, is that the guys have the skills. It’s up to us as coaches today to make sure that we get those guys firing come Friday, giving them the confidence but also giving them the belief that they can turn this around.
Well, wesatt in the change room the other night, we’ve got six matches to win the World Cup. We’ve got to get on a streak, we’ve got to win six in a row now. We know that as a unit, and we know that as a team. We’ve got to make sure we get our strategy 100%, we’ve got to make sure that we get our execution 100%. And if we do that, there’s no reason why we can’t.
Babar is 100% right with that and we’ve got to work through it. Is it the pressure of the occasion? What is it that’s causing that? Because we haven’t put a game together yet and we’ve got to face facts, we haven’t played the complete game. And it’s up to us to delve, to dig, to give advice, to give information and to give belief that we can put that perfect game together because we know our perfect game is good enough. Our perfect game is good enough to beat anybody. We’ve got to find it, and we’ve got to find it quick.
Look, it’s very easy because there’s massive ambition within the playing group. The boys are trying their hearts out; the boys are training. I can’t fault effort; I can’t fault attitude. What I can fault is the execution of skills under pressure, and that’s something that we’re continually working on at practice.
Look, they’re a very good cricket team, South Africa, and they’re full of confidence because they have played well. I know, though, that if we do our basics right, if we get our disciplines right, our skills will come through. If our skills come through, we’ve got it in us to beat anybody. We’ve just got to believe that we can do it. We’ve got to believe that we have the tools to do it, and we’ve also got to believe we’ve got the skills to do it because I know the boys’ skills are good enough. As I say, our skills are good enough to beat anybody on the day. It’s just us bringing them out now under pressure because that’s what’s been lacking."
"Not ideal, and to be brutally honest, I don’t think our skills have been where they’ve needed to be in those last three games. What we do know, though, is that the guys have the skills. It’s up to us as coaches today to make sure that we get those guys firing come Friday, giving them the confidence but also giving them the belief that they can turn this around.
Well, wesatt in the change room the other night, we’ve got six matches to win the World Cup. We’ve got to get on a streak, we’ve got to win six in a row now. We know that as a unit, and we know that as a team. We’ve got to make sure we get our strategy 100%, we’ve got to make sure that we get our execution 100%. And if we do that, there’s no reason why we can’t.
Babar is 100% right with that and we’ve got to work through it. Is it the pressure of the occasion? What is it that’s causing that? Because we haven’t put a game together yet and we’ve got to face facts, we haven’t played the complete game. And it’s up to us to delve, to dig, to give advice, to give information and to give belief that we can put that perfect game together because we know our perfect game is good enough. Our perfect game is good enough to beat anybody. We’ve got to find it, and we’ve got to find it quick.
Look, it’s very easy because there’s massive ambition within the playing group. The boys are trying their hearts out; the boys are training. I can’t fault effort; I can’t fault attitude. What I can fault is the execution of skills under pressure, and that’s something that we’re continually working on at practice.
Look, they’re a very good cricket team, South Africa, and they’re full of confidence because they have played well. I know, though, that if we do our basics right, if we get our disciplines right, our skills will come through. If our skills come through, we’ve got it in us to beat anybody. We’ve just got to believe that we can do it. We’ve got to believe that we have the tools to do it, and we’ve also got to believe we’ve got the skills to do it because I know the boys’ skills are good enough. As I say, our skills are good enough to beat anybody on the day. It’s just us bringing them out now under pressure because that’s what’s been lacking."
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All up to Pak now.
Pakistan/SL also have a chance.
