Mickey Arthur claims building pressure was key to winning first Test – Cricket News Update
Australian head coach, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mickey-Arthur-c1969 said that building pressure on the Indian batters was key to his side’s important victory in the first Test.
Despite possessing some of the world’s greatest batting talent, the Men In Blue again tumbled to some precise bowling from the Kangaroo pace trio of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/BW-Hilfenhaus-c1204.
The seamers made full use of the pace friendly track on offer to inflict an easy win for their side, sharing a total of 19 wickets among them. It included a maiden five-wicket haul for Hilfenhaus while the aggression shown by Siddle and Pattinson allowed
the Aussies to struck first blood in a crucial opening encounter of the four-Test match series.
The key to the hosts has been the amount of pressure they placed on their opponents, a notion first highlighted by Siddle himself. It is now backed by their coach, who feels that despite the visitors possessing a power packed batting line up; pressure got
to them.
"They all have chinks in their armour. They all come with great records and fantastic scores. Yet every batsman in world cricket loves to keep scoring. If we can step the dot balls up and build pressure, it's a way in for us. Pressure is the name of the
game in Test cricket," said Arthur.
His judgment is backed by an abysmal away record currently haunting the sub-continent giants, where they have failed to assert any sort of dominancy in the longer version of the game. In their last tour of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/England-c56013, which ended in a 4-0 thumping, only once
the Men In Blue managed to score 300 and that too came in the final Test match.
Going into the second Test at the SCG, Arthur feels that the head start given by the bowlers will hold his side in good stead and also backed his players to execute the plans and go 2-0 up in the series.
"I do think our bowlers were very good. I do think we executed over plans very well. I do think we now have a lot of information we can use going forward. We will alter our game plan slightly for the top four of the six,” added Arthur.
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