“It didn’t seem like an ICC event, I would be pretty honest. It seemed like a bilateral series, like a BCCI event. I didn’t hear ‘Dil Dil Pakistan’ coming through the microphones too often. That does play a role, but I am not using that as an excuse because for us, it was about living in the moment, about the next ball and about how we would combat the Indian players tonight,” Arthur mentioned put up Pakistan’s large drubbing.
Quizzed on whether or not Pakistan’s lovers will have to preferably were right here, Arthur introduced a directly bat. “I don’t want to get fined just yet. I don’t want to get fined,” he quipped.
Pakistan’s head teacher Lend Bradburn too echoed his sadness on the non-arrival of Pakiant’s lovers up to now, announcing that Saturday’s trip “didn’t feel like a World Cup game.”
“Naturally that was going to be the case. We are really sad that our supporters aren’t here, they would love to be here and I am sure Indian cricket fans would love our supporters here as well. It was certainly unusual in that way, no familiar music for us today. So it did not feel like a World Cup game, honestly. We didn’t expect anything else. We love the occasion and we are disappointed that we did not do justice to the occasion or justice to our many fans at home and globally,” Bradburn mentioned.
On the other hand, for anyone who has coached world groups all through his occupation, the South African used to be filled with celebrate for the Indian group, hour hoping to satisfy them within the ultimate, regardless of the hammering on Saturday evening! “This Indian team looks good. I think they’re very well led by Rahul (Dravid) and Rohit (Sharma). They’ve got all bases covered. I’m looking forward to meeting them in the final again.”
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Arthur felt that Pakistan have been “timid” at the evening. “I just think we were a little timid tonight with our approach. I would’ve liked us to take the game on a little bit more. It’s a massive occasion as we know. I think we just went into our shells a little bit. To go for 155 for two, to 191 all out is just not on. Yes, credit to India, they bowled really well but I thought our performance was just a little timid,” Arthur analyzed.
Requested if possibly it will’ve helped if skipper Babar Azam and Mohammad Rizwan may’ve taken at the Indian spinners just a little extra to extend the scoring fee, Arthur mentioned, “Look, they’re classy performers. They’ve done it day in and day out for Pakistan over an extended period of time. So, I’m not going to sit here and castigate them for that. As I said, I thought we were a little timid. We could’ve taken on the Indian spinners just a little bit more. It was a wicket that didn’t turn massively. I thought we needed to put some pressure back (on India). But again, they (India) were building (pressure) and building nicely. I think we’ve got to realise that there are two ways to skin a cat. We have had success by taking it deep, and then cashing in at the back end. That’s been our style. We didn’t play the Pakistan way tonight, and that was the disappointing aspect of it.”
He stressed out that having gained two video games out of 3 up to now of their marketing campaign, Pakistan weren’t hitting the panic stations but, relating to losing positive under-performing avid gamers. “Look, it’s too soon. I mean, we are 2 from 3 (in terms of wins). So, we’re certainly not panicking yet. We’ll go back and analyze this game to the nth degree. We’ll have conversations about how we want to go forward. Australia is our next game, we’ll have conversations about them. We’ll look at conditions, and we’ll make selection decisions based on our strategy and conditions for the next game,” he defined.
