Using this time to reflect and recalibrate: SL coach Mickey Arthur

Sri Lanka coach Mickey Arthur is utilising forced break from cricket to reflect on his three-month tenure and recalibrate future plans for team.

vel coronavirus outbreak, which has led to almost 70,000 deaths globally, has caused a collapse of sports events worldwide and time off gives Arthur and his coaching staff opportunity to introspect.

"We are using this time to reflect on first 3 months of our tenure and recalibrate our individual and team plans going forward to very important series that we have coming up later in year," Arthur told Sri Lanka Cricket.

"We have been very happy with improvement and willingness from players to buy into structure, work ethic, levels of preparation and goals that we have set team in all formats," he added.

As governments all over world are calling for social-distancing, Arthur and his coaching staff are studying trends and analyzing ir opposition.

"This isolation period is giving us as coaching staff a time to reflect as well on player plans, roles and goals that we have set for ourselves as a group."

"We are also looking at trends from around world and analyzing all opposition that we are going to play against over next year."

With sporting activities coming to a standstill, players are confined to ir homes and Arthur is handing out tailored workouts to ensure his side remains physically and mentally fit when on-field action resumes.

" players all have individual fitness plans to keep m up to speed with ir levels of fitness, se plans are tailored to facilities that each player has at his disposal at home to maintain expected fitness levels."

"Our trainers Dilshan Fonseka and Paul Khoury have been very proactive in working out programs with each individual."

"se reflections are mental, physical and technical. This allows us as coaches to n add this to player plans that we have constructed for each player."

Sri Lanka were forced to cancel ir home Test series against England without playing a single match.

"It was really disappointing t playing Test series against England although this will be played at a later date. I felt that our test team grew so much on our tour of Zimbabwe.

" Zimbabwe tour was very tough and we had to play very disciplined cricket to win series because of conditions that we were presented with over re."

Arthur also hoped that momentum his team gained after winning series against Zimbabwe is t lost due to unexpected break.

(Im - AP)