• Virat Kohli focuses on India’s strengths
The Pakistan coach, Mickey Arthur, has promised his young side they will go down in history if they can “produce the perfect game” and beat India for the first time at a World Cup. Organisers are forecasting that Sunday’s match at Old Trafford will have the biggest TV and digital cricket audience of all time but Arthur swatted away concerns Pakistan might buckle under the pressure of the occasion.
Arthur said: “I’m telling our players: ‘You could be a hero. Your careers are going to be defined by a moment in the game. You do something incredible and you’ll be remembered for ever.’ If we put the perfect game together, we can beat everybody, and the dressing room is very, very confident of that fact.”
Written by Sean Ingle
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/jun/15/india-pakistan-mickey-arthur-players-can-be-heros under the title “India v Pakistan: Mickey Arthur tells his players they can be heroes”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
