'Mickey Arthur's sacking was a tough decision', says top PCB official

A top official of Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has mitted that removing Mickey Arthur as he coach of national team was a tough decision to make. Arthur has recently spoken about manner in which PCB's cricket committee recommended his removal after World Cup, saying he felt let down by people he trusted most.

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PCB's chief executive Wasim Khan said in an interview on Sunday that cricket committee, which was heed by him and included Wasim Akram and Misbah-ul-Haq, h held a robust meeting and asked a lot of tough questions to Arthur, captain Sarfaraz Ahmed and former chief selector Inzamam-ul-Haq during post-World Cup inquiry. " first question we asked ourselves was were we happy to be number seven in Tests and number six in One-dayers. Are we happy that we have been inconsistent over a long period of time," Khan said.

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"In Mickey's defence, he did a lot of good things for Pakistan cricket. But we h to make a tough decision, it is a new regime, new domestic structure and we needed to be sustainable, have a proper succession plan for our leers and coaches in Pakistan cricket."

He ted if recommendations are being put forward to chairman, cricket committee has to give reasons why y need changes."We felt re were a number of areas where we still needed to be better at. We plateaued a bit wher we could get any better or that was t good eugh for us we needed to make a fresh start," he said.

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Khan also insisted that ICC Test Championship is important for Pakistan and that is why it has revamped its red ball domestic cricket."Because red ball cricket matters to us it is health check of any cricket playing country. ODI and T20 cricket is important I am t demeaning m but Test cricket matters to us." 

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