Chronicle EditorBRISBANE. — Australia have been a “closer” cricket team since former head coach Mickey Arthur made way for Darren Lehmann, according to pace spearhead Mitchell Starc. Now directing Pakistan, South African Arthur is keen to steer the south Asians to a win against his old team when the three-Test series starts in Brisbane on Thursday.
Starc was never able to cement his position in the test side during Arthur’s 19-month tenure from 2011-13, and said Australia were a better team under his successor Lehmann.”I didn’t have too much time with him … he obviously had his different theories,” Starc told local media in Brisbane yesterday.
“He was a nice guy.”— Reuters.
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