Mickey Arthur: Amazing to see how India nurtures its young players

Sri Lanka coach Mickey Arthur feels that international cricket teams can learn from India on how to nurture young players and empower m with responsibilities at critical junctures.   Be it in bowling or batting department, cricketing powerhouse India has built a solid bench strength for all formats under Virat Kohli's leership. And that has left Arthur impressed. "It has been interesting watching m introduce young players and giving m responsibility at critical times, that has been so good. And seeing those young players respond has been amazing. I think India in cricket is in really, really good shape at moment," said 51-year-old Arthur responded to a PTI query after India beat Sri Lanka by seven wickets in second T20 International. "You look at someone like KL Rahul  he hit some shots that were absolutely amazing. India along with probably Australia w  I think Australia have found ir mojo again  are certainly flagbearers in world cricket," said Arthur.

Before Sri Lanka, Arthur coached South Africa (2005-10), Australia (2010-13) and Pakistan (2016-19).   India are t as strong in T20 format as y in or two formats but Arthur can barely find any chink in ir armoury. "y are a great cricket team and re are apparent weaknesses."

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'Amazing to see how India nurtures its young players'

Arthur has taken over a Sri Lankan team in transition and kw that it is very much a work in progress. On Tuesday, most of Sri Lankan batsmen threw it away after getting starts and that did t go down well he coach. India chased down 143-run target in 17.3 overs. "We did t get eugh runs. We lost one of our bowlers (Isuru Udana) unfortunately in warm-up, but I think we were about 20-25 runs short of putting India under some pressure. We h a couple of our batsmen getting starts, but starts are t good eugh. Somebody needs to get a 60-70 or 80 for us, and that is going to be journey for us."

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Arthur mitted that it would take some time for young batting unit to gain some confidence. "It is quite a young batting unit. For us as coaching staff and players, we have got some serious work to do in terms of gameplan, match awareness and playing big moments. I think we h 49 dot balls tonight, which is too many, as best teams in world (would) have 25 dot balls."

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coach wants his players to rotate strike more often than trying to hit every ball out of park. "That is something we need to keep working on. re are too many big shots without ability to keep rotating strike. If you cut those 49 (dot balls) by 24 n you have got ar 24 to score off, and with strike rotation you put bowlers off a little bit, you (may) get a b ball, an extra boundary, and suddenly we are up to 170. And with that you can challenge likes of a very good Indian team, ded Arthur.

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