Cricket: Mickey Arthur Resigned?
Rumour has it that Mickey Arthur has resigned as coach of the South African cricket side and won’t be touring in India with the team.
Not that Mickey or Cricket SA have confirmed anything yet.
Apparently Graeme Smith and Arthur stopped seeing eye to eye a while ago.
Which is news to us cricket lovers who don’t know the inner workings of the Proteas change room.
The captain and coach always gave the impression that they came as a pair – if one had to go, the other would follow.
However, Mickey Arthur has not been popular amongst cricket fans for a while.
During the recent England series there was some rumour that Arthur was considering a coaching job in the UK.
The term light-weight coach has been mentioned once or twice and there’s also been a school of thought that Arthur had taken the Proteas as far as he can take it and that a fresh approach was needed.
Bowling coach Vincent Barnes is also said to be leaving.
The Proteas are due to leave for India at the weekend.
Hopefully they wont be too distracted.
