{"id":28140,"date":"2017-11-01T13:13:59","date_gmt":"2017-11-01T08:13:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=28140"},"modified":"2017-11-01T13:15:47","modified_gmt":"2017-11-01T08:15:47","slug":"coaching-pak-team-pleasant-experience-says-mickey-arthur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=28140","title":{"rendered":"Coaching Pak team \u2018pleasant experience\u2019, says Mickey Arthur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>LAHORE Nov 01 (TNS):<\/strong> Pakistan Cricket Team Head Coach Mickey Arthur said on Wednesday that coaching the national team is proving to be a pleasant experience for him.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in an interview, he said that he has grown fond of coaching the team as the Pakistan Cricket Board has been fully supporting him. &#8220;I am allowed to freely work on improving team&#8217;s performance,&#8221; Arthur said.<\/p>\n<p>Responding to a question, the coach admitted that Test defeat in the recent Sri Lanka series was upsetting for him.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are missing on a lot after the retirement of Misbahul Haq and Younis Khan,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Arthur said that he is currently focused on restructuring the Test team.<\/p>\n<p>The former Australian coach took charge of Pakistani team&#8217;s coach following the resignation of Waqar Younis after the World T20 tournament. The 47-year-old Arthur coached his native South Africa from 2005-10 and also led Australia for two years from 2011.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE Nov 01 (TNS): Pakistan Cricket Team Head Coach Mickey Arthur said on Wednesday that coaching the national team is proving to be a pleasant experience for him. Speaking in an interview, he said that he has grown fond of coaching the team as the Pakistan Cricket Board has been fully supporting him. &#8220;I am [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28141,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[111,330,110],"class_list":["post-28140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-pakistan-news","tag-sports","tag-times-international-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28140"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28142,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28140\/revisions\/28142"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}