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...
achieve came chance goal harsh hoping innings lesson maybe scores slip tour
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.
balls bit maybe played seeing tail worried
He played superbly. We were a bit worried about him after seeing how well he batted with the tail in Perth but he was superb. Maybe we didn't get enough balls to McGrath.
might obviously ourselves slightly target
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.
batter dangerous looked ourselves situation stage tail target
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.
happy problem understand
We're happy with it. We understand it wasn't racist, we don't have a problem with it.
australia harder killer knocked land sort tend
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.
batting best break certainly days easy guys local looked morning three
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.
horrendous injuries run seem
Our run of injuries has been horrendous and it just doesn't seem to be getting any better.
australia fact large left months success tour
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.
happier might release suppose
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.
available bat best bit easier familiar guess position quite selection slot
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.
bit guess selection
I guess it made our selection poser a little bit easier.
australia game guys plans played
We had game plans in Australia and the guys played him very well.