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Lahore: Players should not play for themselves but for the team, Mickey Arthur gave a clear message to the players.
It has been going on for a long time in Pakistan cricket that some players prioritize personal performance and goals, this selfishness allows them to maintain world rankings and create records but the team’s performance suffers. For the same reason, the strike rate of captains Babar Azam and Mohammad Rizwan was also criticized, many observers said that especially in T20 cricket, both of them play so many overs as openers that the few balls available to others. The pressure is on to score runs quickly, and if the batting fails at the end, the total falls short of expectations.
In an interview with the foreign media, Mickey Arthur, director of the Pakistan team, said that the team first comes after the people, I have a strict attitude in this matter. When records are broken, the first priority should be team success. Mickey Arthur was asked that Pakistani cricketers have been accused of chasing personal goals instead of the team. While doing so, I will try to ensure that they play the brand of cricket that is expected of them.
He said that everyone should have a clear understanding of their role and responsibility in the team, individual thinking should not prevail, I would like that such behavior should not be seen by anyone in the team, I will challenge the players that the brand Try to do justice to your role by putting the team first when it comes to off-cricket.
The team director said that 40 runs in 18 balls are more valuable than 70 runs in 60 balls in the top order, such small but useful efforts in the middle and lower order will also be valued because as a team many more victories can be achieved this way.
Mickey Arthur said that more thought is needed to decide the batting positions keeping in view the balance of the playing eleven, the role of the players, the team will be first in the priorities, Mohammad Rizwan will be second, we will see that their abilities How best to take advantage of him, after determining his role, say what we need from this position, you go and perform fearlessly, Rizwan is a brilliant and mature cricketer. He has matured a lot after the first period in B, now he has established himself as a world class cricketer, let’s see in which position he can be more useful for the team.
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Remember that Muhammad Rizwan said during the home series against New Zealand that he is not happy with batting at number 5 in ODI cricket and would prefer to play at number 4 but is ready to make any sacrifice for the team. The wicketkeeper batsman has scored 742 runs at an average of 43.64 in 20 innings while batting at the fourth position, including 2 centuries and 5 fifties.
