Mickey Arthur convinced team management to end timing restrictions

Pakistan cricket team head coach, Mickey Arthur has successfully convinced the team management to end timing restrictions for players in the England tour as he feels that it is affecting their focus and performances.

After the spot-fixing saga in 2010, Pakistan cricket authorities has been very strict on enforcing timings, especially on the foreign tours. “Since 2010 players have been fined for violating curfew hours even by a few minutes on foreign tours and their movements have been restricted by the team management to avoid any unnecessary controversies or scandals,” a source told PTI.

According to the management rule, the players have to be in their rooms by 10 during Tests and by 11 before a day-night ODI match. “Before Mickey Arthur played his role, players were supposed to be in their rooms by 10.00 before and during a test and by 11.00 before a day and night One-Day International (ODI),” the source added.

“He then spoke to manager Intikhab Alam and the security officials and convinced them it was no use placing restrictions on the players as it affected their focus and their performances,” the source added.

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The source also said that the players had now been told that there won’t be any more timings, but they have to be responsible for keeping late nights out of plans. “So far there has been no disciplinary incident on the tour even after the curfew timings were abolished,” another source confirmed.

However, the security officials will have a close look at the movement and timings of players. PCB had also hired a PR consulting firm in England to make sure that the tour goes incident free.