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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We have tended to dominate the last session of the first day of both previous Test matches and it's important that we follow this up now with a good first session tomorrow.
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I've got no problem with that. It's within the spirit of the game. He thought it was an obvious deflection. There was a lot of appealing and histrionics going on and he hit it and walked. That's fine. I've never instructed a player to stand or walk, that's a personal preference. He hit it. Good catch. And off he went.
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It's evenly poised at the moment. We had two good sessions after lunch and after tea but the first session tomorrow is going to be crucial.
good runs sign
It's a good sign for us because we've now got the runs on the board.
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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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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.
include local players
We are going to include some of the players who have done well in the local series.
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We're happy with it. We understand it wasn't racist, we don't have a problem with it.
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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 are always a bat-first team, but the local guys said we could break through on the first morning and that days two and three would be best for batting. Well, we didn't make the breakthrough and batting certainly looked easy today.
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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 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.