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London, June 5 (TNS):\u00a0Pakistan\u00a0coach\u00a0Mickey Arthur\u00a0has a reputation for being a strict disciplinarian is no secret. Over the years, the likes of Australia\u2019s Shane Watson and even Umar Akmal have learnt that fact the hard way.<\/p>\n
Judging by Arthur\u2019s latest comments following Pakistan\u2019s defeat to\u00a0England\u00a0in the Headingley Test, a few more players could come under the firing line of the South African.<\/p>\n
Pakistan, who had beaten the hosts convincingly in the first Test at Lord\u2019s, slumped to a defeat by an innings and 55 runs in the second Test. That turnaround hasn\u2019t gone down too well with the head coach.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe need to dish out a couple of hidings but it\u2019s how they grow. The talent we have in that dressing room is phenomenal so we\u2019ve just got to get more consistency and that\u2019s what we\u2019re striving for,\u201d Arthur told\u00a0Sky Sports<\/em>\u00a0after the huge defeat.<\/p>\n Skipper\u00a0Sarfraz Ahmed\u00a0led a relatively inexperienced Pakistan on the tour, with as many as seven players who took the field at Lord\u2019s playing Test cricket in England for the first time in their careers. As such, the Pakistan coach believes that the team will learn from its inconsistencies.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019ll have a hard discussion about it, but as long as that dressing room has learnt from it. We\u2019re a young team and hopefully we can grow and grow quicker. Inconsistency is one of the things that comes with a young team, however hard that is for all of us to take at the moment,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n The performance of the bowlers on the tour was more than satisfactory, but the fact that not a single Pakistan batsman notched up a century has stood out sorely for Arthur.<\/p>\n \u201cThe key thing that we\u2019re going to discuss is that a number of our batsmen in this series got starts, but we didn\u2019t get a hundred. And for us to grow as a team we need someone in the top six getting hundreds consistently,\u201d Arthur explained.<\/p>\n Courtesy: Sports 360<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" London, June 5 (TNS):\u00a0Pakistan\u00a0coach\u00a0Mickey Arthur\u00a0has a reputation for being a strict disciplinarian is no secret. Over the years, the likes of Australia\u2019s Shane Watson and even Umar Akmal have learnt that fact the hard way. Judging by Arthur\u2019s latest comments following Pakistan\u2019s defeat to\u00a0England\u00a0in the Headingley Test, a few more players could come under […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68132","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=68132"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68134,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68132\/revisions\/68134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}