Internet Desk: Pakistan head coach Mickey Arthur said missed opportunities by his team was the main reason for the loss against India on Sunday.
"That's our own fault because we had two opportunities. Hasan Ali dropped Yuvraj and Fahim Ashraf dropped Virat Kohli. You take those catches, it's a different game," he said.
While talking to media at the Post match press-conference, Arthur took the blame of playing Waheb Riaz in place of Junaid Khan.
"The boys didn't go out there to perform like that. The boys have trained extremely hard. They've worked extremely hard over 12 days," Mickey said.
"It's up to me and my coaching staff to find out why we didn't execute. Why were we so tentative? That's more the issues for me at the moment. So, it's disappointing, but we'll go back to the drawing boards and we'll hopefully come back a lot stronger," the coach said.
On being asked about whether Waheb was fully fit to play the game against arch-rivals India, Arthur said Waheb had a crucial role to play against the Men in Blue, but he failed miserably.
"I'll take the blame, me, I'll take it. I selected him. I selected him because I wanted him to perform a role. Okay? He didn't execute that role, unfortunately. So sometimes it works out. Sometimes it doesn't." added Arthur.
Arthur is hopeful about Pakistan’s comeback. According to the gaffer his team will find out what went wrong today and bounce back against the Proteas.
"We'll have a good, hard chat tonight. And then when we leave the dressing room tonight it will all be done, and we'll be thinking firmly of coming back and beating South Africa. Because that's what I think our players can do, and that's why I certainly believe our team can do," he said.
The Pakistan gaffer also added that today’s performance was a good lesson for his boys as they have understand where they stand in ODI cricket right now but he didn’t blame his players for today’s poor show.
"The guys tried as hard as they could. My issue is fear. My issue is getting out there and really looking to take the game on and just believing in themselves and believing that they can take the game on," he said.
"The worrying thing for me, and it has been for a period of time, is we just do the basics wrong. We do the simple things wrong. We dropped simple catches. We don't run well enough between wickets," the head coach of the team added.
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