Video: Mickey Arthur - 'You live and die by the sword'

SOUNDBITE (English) Mickey Arthur, Former Australia coach:“The reality is, when you take a job on, as head coach you are totally responsible for the outcomes. The players are a young group, learning the ways. I am always very structured in the way I go about things. I am a man of principle. I try and get the team going in one direction because I sincerely believe that a team with culture is a successful team. So I don’t feel let down by the players at all. At the end of the day, you live and die by the sword. And I gave this job 100 per cent of my time over the last couple of years and the disappointing thing was (that) I thought that we were nearly there to cracking it – I really do. I take responsibility for it.”

SOUNDBITE (English) James Sutherland, Cricket Australia chief executive:“The performance of the Australia team over the past few months have not been of the standard we expect or desire. It’s as simple as that. But a little bit more deeply I suppose, just to comment on some of the key ingredients we see as important to us as a high performing team. Consistency of behaviour, accountability for performance, discipline – they are things that we would like to see in the team that is improving performance and continuing to build. We have recognised issues and concerns about that in months gone by and recent months we have not seen the improvement there that we would like.”