Mickey Arthur
Mickey Arthur
John Michael "Mickey" Arthuris a South African cricketer who played South African domestic cricket from 1986 to 2001. He is the current coach of the Pakistan national cricket team. He coached the South African national team from 2005 to 2010, and was the coach of the Australia national cricket team until his sacking on 23 June 2013...
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Our run of injuries has been horrendous and it just doesn't seem to be getting any better.
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I suppose it does release the shackles. I think there might be one or two happier batters out there when I tell them the news.
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I think his success comes down in large part to the fact that he had two months off when he left the tour of Australia because of that injury.
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Maybe that's a lesson we can take out of it. It was a harsh lesson but we are still very positive. Our goal before we came on tour was to make big first innings scores and we let our chance slip in Perth. I am hoping we can achieve that goal tomorrow.
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I thought Australia took the initiative early today and held the sway for the day. I guess, the pressure gave way today.
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Jacques is training again, bowling and fielding. It's just batting that's still a problem and he's not hitting any balls yet. Hopefully he can start doing that by the end of the week.
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Kallis tends to the 'wall', he's the rock around which we normally build our innings. But Herschelle has played beautifully so far. He's been playing well all week and the good thing about Herschelle is he scores (quickly). He also tends to take out time and the game away from the opposition. We are really looking for a big partnership from them.
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I guess it made our selection poser a little bit easier for us, but unfortunately he (Kemp) is not available for selection. Kallis will slot in at four, the world's best player, he'll bat in a position that he's quite familiar with.
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I guess it made our selection poser a little bit easier.
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We're prepared either way. I'm thinking they won't go with two spinners but who knows, we can't spend time worrying about their team.
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He tweaked a hamstring (in the first Test) in Cape Town, and he was just feeling the effects.
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We've sort of knocked them but we could never get them down and then Australia have come back harder at us. Just when we think we're going to land the killer blow, they tend to come back. When you play under that sort of pressure, something had to give.
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We set ourselves a target to be 150 ahead. Obviously it was slightly disappointing. We might have let ourselves down in one or two instances.
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We set ourselves a target this morning, we wanted to be 150 ahead. At one stage that looked very attainable. It's always dangerous when you have a batter with the tail enders. The situation was tailor-made for Gilchrist.