When the Pakistan team arrived for their tour of Australia, there was some who thought that they would push Australia throughout the Tests this summer.
However, from day one of the 1st Test in Melbourne, things went downhill, and stayed that way throughout the tour.
Pakistan lost the Test series 3-0, the second with victory in sight only to be ruined by bad catching and some bizarre field placings on the final day.
Even more so was the catching poor on the New Zealand leg of their tour, where Pakistan dropped an extraordinary six catches during one of the matches.
Then Pakistan lost the two Twenty20 games, and the Commonwealth Bank one-day series 5-0, to cap off one of the worst tours in Pakistan’s long history.
But no-one could have predicted the savage backlash that greeted the team on their return to Pakistan.
The Pakistan Cricket Board appointed a board of inquiry into the dismal performance of the Pakistan team on their tour of Australia/NZ, and the results of their findings were:
– Mohammad Yousuf and Younus Khan were banned. Yousuf was also stripped of the captaincy.
– Shoaib Malik and Rana Naved ul-Hasan suspended for one year.
– The Akmal brothers (who were involved in a major disagreement with Pakistan team management over team selections – at one stage threatening to return to Pakistan on the first flight after the Sydney debacle) and Shadid Afridi were put on probation for six months and were also fined by the PCB.
With overseas teams refusing to tour Pakistan because of security concerns and the Pakistan team imploding both on and off the field, the International Cricket Council must be concerned about the state of cricket in Pakistan.
Pakistan is in big trouble again.
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