Mickey Arthur: “Shadab Khan gives you incredible depth. Great fielder, very good batsman, great cricket thinker, and on his day, a match-winner with the ball”
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Former Pakistan head coach Mickey Arthur has called spin-bowling all-rounder Shadab Khan a “match-winner with the ball”.
Mickey Arthur: “How Babar is not in this batting line-up is totally beyond me”
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Former head coach Mickey Arthur admitted he is completely baffled by Pakistan’s decision to exclude batsman Babar Azam from the team for the 2025 Asia Cup.
Mickey Arthur: “Both Babar and Rizwan are excellent players, but cricket has evolved. They are not perfect for the kind of cricket needed to play in T20s today”
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Former Pakistan head coach Mickey Arthur has made a brutally honest admission about batsmen Babar Azam and Mohammad Rizwan, saying they aren’t T20I players.
Mickey Arthur: “If Rizwan is your best wicketkeeper, then he has a role to play. He can adapt his game to fit wherever the team needs him. It’s about making the most of his abilities”
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Former head coach Mickey Arthur believes Pakistan should make the most of ODI captain Mohammad Rizwan’s abilities as “he has a role to play” in the team.
Kamran Akmal on Azhar Mahmood: “I just don’t understand the logic behind this decision”
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Former wicketkeeper-batsman Kamran Akmal said he doesn’t understand the Pakistan Cricket Board’s (PCB) logic after they named Azhar Mahmood interim red-ball head coach.
Mickey Arthur: “Babar Azam is a class, class player. Class players don’t come around very often. Class players are good enough to adapt their games as well and I think in the right environment, I think Babar Azam will certainly adapt his game”
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Former Pakistan head coach Mickey Arthur said class players like batsman Babar Azam “don’t come around very often”.
Mickey Arthur: “It’s an interesting one. I would always have Babar Azam in the team. I think he’s a wonderful player. I’m not sure what’s happened over the past couple of years, but the Babar I know is absolute class”
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Former Pakistan head coach Mickey Arthur has made it clear that he would never drop batsman Babar Azam as he is “absolute class”.
Mickey Arthur: “Jason Gillespie is a wonderful coach, a wonderful man. Pakistan cricket just continues to shoot itself in the foot. It is its own worst enemy”
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Mickey Arthur said “Pakistan cricket just continues to shoot itself in the foot” after Jason Gillespie and Gary Kirsten both resigned as red-ball head coach and white-ball head coach respectively.
Mickey Arthur: “I still think Babar Azam is in the top echelon of ODI batting in the world, all batting. He hasn’t put it together for a bit and that happens with players… whether they lose that little edge or they lost that little bit of hunger”
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Former Pakistan head coach Mickey Arthur questioned if batsman Babar Azam has “lost that little bit of hunger”, but stressed that he is still “in the top echelon of ODI batting in the world”.
Mickey Arthur: “What he provides is a power game, but he also provides a left-handed option at the back end of the innings, which is quite crucial”
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Former Pakistan head coach Mickey Arthur said big-hitting all-rounder Khushdil Shah brings a power game to the national team.
