Mickey Arthur responds to Russel Arnold’s comments on his convo with Shanaka
Mickey Arthur wasn’t a happy man after Sri Lanka lost the second ODI against India by three wickets on Tuesday, July 20 at the R Premadasa Stadium in Colombo. The defeat also meant that the Men in Blue won the series 2-0 with one game left on Friday. During India’s run-chase, Arthur looked in an animated mode with emotions flowing as per the ebbs and flows of the match.
The Lankans, in the end, lost the game after Deepak Chahar’s unbeaten 82-ball 69 with seven fours and one six. The hosts succumbed after being in a winning position. After the end of the match, Arthur was seen, having a heated conversation with Dasun Shanaka, the Lankan skipper. From the convo, it was evident that not everything was right in the home team’s camp.
Micky Arthur’s coaching career is over. This is Not because of India’s victory. But Becoz of his bad behaviour at Stadium after lose. #INDvSL
He argued with Captain at field pic.twitter.com/qmUFHidyla— Pradeep Krishnan (@pradeep_reports) July 20, 2021
In the meantime, former Lankan cricketer Russel Arnold said that the conversation should have taken place inside the dressing room and not in the park. Arthur replied by saying that they had a ‘good debate’ though he admitted being frustrated. Arthur replied to Arnold in the following tweet.
Here’s Mickey Arthur’s reply
Russ we win together and lose together but we learn all the time!Dasun and myself are growing a team and we both were very frustrated we did not get over the line!It was actually a very good debate,no need to make mischief out of it!
— Mickey Arthur (@Mickeyarthurcr1) July 20, 2021
Following the defeat, Shanaka was disappointed, but he didn’t forget to laud his team for the improved performance. He couldn’t perform with the bat but took the prized wicket of Hardik Pandya that had put the Lankans on the driver’s seat.
“I am really proud of the ways the boys played today. It was a really tough game. Credit to the Indians and especially Deepak, who took the game away from us. We started well again but lost several wickets in the middle overs. We shouldn’t give them easy wickets and we need to bat better till the batting powerplay,” Shanaka said.
