‘Today’s match looked like a BCCI event, not ICC’: Mickey Arthur

Pakistan cricket team director Mickey Arthur has said after his team’s defeat by India, “Today’s match was not an International Cricket Council (ICC) event but looked like a home event of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). I didn’t hear “Dil Dil Pakistan” coming through the microphones too often tonight.”

Han ye to tha jab Babar boundries laga rha tha to not even a single person who satnd out of crowed and cheered. Its look like a BCCI event said micky aurthur pic.twitter.com/qj2ArrFfgY

— Wasim Sarwar (@MuhammadWa97681) October 14, 2023

The coach was referring to an anthem, sang by Vital Signs, that Pakistani fans sing at all their team matches.

While addressing a press conference after the match, Mickey Arthur said” We did not play well today, getting out for 155 to 191 is not fair, it was a big match, we could have done better on this wicket”.

He said “India bowled well, we could have counter-pressured but today we could not play according to the Pakistan way”. He said the team goes into the field to win every match.”Past records are only played in the media. Its a long World Cup, we win two out of three matches,” adding that the team will focus on the next match with patience.

He was hopeful to play the final with this team, trying to give confidence to Shadab and Nawaz.

It should be noted that in the biggest match of the ICC Cricket World Cup, India easily defeated Pakistan by 7 wickets.