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...
happiness happy series win
We need to win the series (against New Zealand). I won't be happy if we don't.
australia game guys plans played
We had game plans in Australia and the guys played him very well.
managing match test throughout
We'll have to keep managing that throughout the test match ... he'll be fine.
chat coaster emotional huge last roller
We've had a long chat about it. We've been on a huge emotional roller coaster in the last week.
huge last
We feel we need another 200 and if we can get that ... we are set up for a huge last day.
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.
australia champion harder killer knock land obviously sign sort titanic
We are obviously pretty down. It's been a titanic struggle. We sort of knock them but we can never get them down. Then Australia come back harder at us. That is the sign of a champion side. Just when we think we will land the killer blow, they come back harder at us all the time.
either prepared spend thinking time worrying
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.
miss missing tough
You can miss one player, but it's tough when you're missing four.
mention name
We don't really want to mention his name any more.
honest masters pressure umpires
To be blatantly honest I think they (Aussies) do put pressure on the umpires and they're masters at it.
achieve goals hoping
We didn't achieve those goals in Perth, so I'm hoping we do on day three.
bit expect helps select
When you select a spinner on a (pitch) that helps spin, you expect a little bit more than that.
happy problem understand
We're happy with it. We understand it wasn't racist, we don't have a problem with it.