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BRAD Haddin has launched a scathing attack on former Australian coach Mickey Arthur.
Praising new coach Darren Lehmann for bringing stability to the side, Haddin claimed that Arthur, a South African, did not understand the way Australia played its cricket.
"I think with Darren coming in, the message he's got across, the brand of cricket that we want to play," Haddin said after training at Brisbane's Gabba yesterday ahead of the first Test, beginning tomorrow.
"The brand of Australian cricket we have played forever and a day, I think that got lost in the period that Mickey had a hold of us.
"I don't think he understood and was secure enough in himself to get us to where we needed to go and it's actually been refreshing coming into a campaign with smiles on guys faces enjoying the game for what it is, a great game of cricket.
Mickey Arthur after conciliation talks with Cricket Australia in Sydney over his dismissal in July. Source: AFP
"I think what Boof (Lehmann) does is he understands the game and he encourages guys to talk about the game and the bottom line is it's a game of cricket.
"He's a very well respected person in cricket circles and he's a good person. He gives the group things that Mickey didn't.
"He (Arthur) was very, very insecure and that came across in a lot of our selections and our plays I think, to be perfectly honest.
"Under Darren we've got a clear message of where we want to go and how we're going to get there. He's able to help guys on the way to get to that point."
Arthur was sacked just 18 days before the first Ashes Test in England midyear, with Cricket Australia citing continuing disciplinary problems.
David Warner's punching of young England batsman Joe Root in a Birmingham bar during the Champions Trophy before the Ashes appeared to have been the last straw.
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The most spectacular unravelling of the team took place in India earlier this year when then vice-captain Shane Watson, Mitchell Johnson, James Pattinson and Usman Khawaja were suspended from the Mohali Test for not doing their homework.
Haddin was out of the Test side at that stage but had flown into Mohali as a replacement for the injured Matthew Wade, who subsequently lost his place for the Ashes. Haddin returned to the team as vice-captain.
"That wasn't the Australian cricket team that I knew when I flew into Mohali," Haddin said.
"That was a unique situation which in all seriousness I can't really explain it.
"It was uncomfortable, walking into it, guys jumping at shadows and the insecurity around everything that was being done.
"So it's just refreshing to get back here now and enjoy the game for what it is, a great game. It's been great for all of us."
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