Sri Lanka coach Mickey Arthur praised Indian team a lot as he felt that other teams can learn from India on how to train young players. Be it in the bowling or batting, cricketing powerhouse India have bench strength in all formats under Virat Kohli’s captaincy that has impressed Arthur.

“It has been interesting watching them introduce young players and giving them responsibility at critical times, that has been so good. And seeing those young players respond has been amazing. I think India in cricket is in really, really good shape at the moment,” said Arthur to PTI.

“You look at someone like KL Rahul – he hit some shots that were absolutely amazing. India along with probably Australia now – I think Australia have found their mojo again – are certainly the flagbearers in world cricket,” added Arthur.

Before Sri Lanka, Mickey Arthur has coached South Africa (2005-10), Australia (2010-13) and Pakistan (2016-19). Although India are not as strong in the T20 format as they are in the ODI and Test.

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“They are a great cricket team and there are no apparent weaknesses.”

Arthur has taken over the responsibility of the Sri Lankan team which is in the transition. On Tuesday, Sri Lankan batsmen managed to put up 142 runs which India chased down in 17.3 overs.

“We did not get enough runs. We lost one of our bowlers (Isuru Udana) unfortunately in the warm-up, but I think we were about 20-25 runs short of putting India under some pressure. We had a couple of our batsmen getting starts, but starts are not good enough. Somebody needs to get a 60-70 or 80 for us, and that is going to be the journey for us,” he added.

“It is quite a young batting unit. For us as coaching staff and players, we have got some serious work to do in terms of gameplan, match awareness and playing the big moments. I think we had 49 dot balls tonight, which is too many, as the best teams in the world (would) have 25 dot balls,” he concluded.