Sydney, Nov 23(ANI): Australian captain Michael Clarke has strongly endorsed Cricket Australia (CA)'s decision to appoint South African Mickey Arthur as the new head coach of the national team.
Clarke also said that he has no problem with the board being unable to find a home-grown replacement for Tim Nielsen.
"I'm pretty sure there were lots of Australians who applied. They put them through a process and Mickey Arthur's come out on top. To me it doesn't matter where you come from, if you're the best man for the job then I believe you deserve to get it," the Herald Sun quoted Clarke, as saying after he arrived back from Johannesburg.
"Mickey has some other great coaches around him with Steve Rixon, our fielding coach, Justin Langer, our batting coach, and Craig McDermott, our bowling coach. You've got some pretty smart cricket minds there working together. I can only see us having more success," he added.
Johannesburg-born Arthur is CA's first overseas appointment as head coach.
Arthur, who is presently the coach of Western Australia, would be relieved with immediate effect and take over before Australia's Test series against New Zealand.
The South African cricket team had scaled the first rank in all three formats of the game during his tenure as the coach from 2005 to 2010.
The 43-year-old's contract is valid till the 2015 50-over World Cup. (ANI)
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