Mickey Arthur compliments http://www.senore.com/Cricket/England-c56013 approach – Cricket News Update
Australian coach, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mickey-Arthur-c1969, has complimented the England team's strategy of playing out and out specialists, claiming that it’s the blueprint that all sides might have to follow in order to achieve success in English conditions.
With the transformation of cricket, many teams’ feel the need to field in players, who are expected to pitch in with both bat and ball. The all-rounders are considered a key feature in the shorter-versions where technique takes a backseat, while the approach is dissimilar to the one witnessed in Test cricket.
However, the current English contingent has gone the traditional way in recent times, a move which has earned them plenty of success, at least at home. They have a compact top-order, comprising of Test famed players in http://www.senore.com/Cricket/IR-Bell-c1597 and Jonathan Trott.
Their bowling department then further has out and out pacers, four-pronged, supported by the spin of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/GP-Swann-c1501. This approach then leaves little room for an all-rounder – a method which has its doubters – but certainly allows the Poms to play possibly their best XI.
With the Australian currently on tour, and already suffering two losses, their coach was quick to praise the old school of thought applied by the hosts and see it as a path of success for his team as well.
"I think in English conditions, they've almost gone back to the old sort of format of one-day cricket," Arthur said. "Three proper Test players at the top of the order, four out-and-out pace bowlers, a really good spinner. They're playing with their specialists, they're playing the one-day game with their best players.
"In England, I think that's a message for every other team, bearing in mind we come back here for the Champions Trophy [next year]. So I think England have a blueprint that works here and it's one we'll probably need to follow in these conditions."
The Aussies had played all-rounder http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Peter-Forrest-c2176, a specialist batsman, in the subsequent bout. While that move hardly paid off, the visiting coach is keen to keep faith in the latter system as he eyes success in the remaining ODIs – the third of which will be played at Birmingham, tomorrow.
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