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Pakistan's Test Tour of Australia: A Summation That Reeks of Eternal Disappointment

After Pakistan's scarcely believable 2nd innings performance in Gabbatoir, everyone expected them to give the Ozzies a run for their money in MCG and SCG. Although their bowling looked limp throughout the series, they looked very credible with the bat unlike the other subcontinent teams. But Pakistan, ever a champion of totally unpredictable and ultimately disappointing Cricket, lost both in MCG and SCG at the last days with 10 and 9 wickets in hand respectively. Subcontinent teams always find it very hard to win in Australia and thus even a respectable draw there amounts to a tremendous 'moral' win. But Pakistan made a royal mess of two perfectly Golden opportunities and that's when two of the more memorable innings of recent times in Azhar Ali's 205 and Younis Khan's 175* were played by them. They simply had to bat time on both the last days and they were playing totally stupid shots and taking unnecessary and imaginary singles when there were no need. The trend started at Christchurch in NZ when they made all the hard work batting almost two sessions in pursuit of 400+ runs and then almost lost all the wickets in last session against the medium pace of Tim Southee and Co. So again a very poor show from a subcontinent side on Ozzie soil and we might get to see Misbah's last day as an International cricket today......So long, Champ!!!!

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