Honestly…. I am sure none of you actually believed with any level of confidence at any point through the last six days that this Pakistani “herd” is good for anything. I am sorry but I can’t use the word “Team” as it is reserved and defined by multiple dictionaries for a group of people working towards a common goal. A good team is said to be one where the whole of the team is greater than the sum of its parts. Need I say more? This is as close as any time the Aussies allow opponents to come close to beating them at their home grounds … those who dare, plan and have finesse… do it…

Yousuf’s captaincy not lacking anything because there wasn’t anything to begin with to lack. Yousuf needed to show some anger (from Imran Khan’s book of captaincy) and bully the boys to do the jobs they have been hired by the rest of the nation (they are all on central contracts and yes there paid from mine and your tax money) to do.

Himself, Yousuf should have stayed… but don’t mind.. I suggest ‘can we send him back to ICL and then conveniently ban him again!’ And please do not suggest bringing back Younus…’cause Faisal Iqbal made at least 34 runs in the game.

… Kamran Akmal is one sorry figure…  I am sure Mohammad Yousuf (who is often regarded as not so good a fielder) could have kept better behind the wickets with bare hands. And what baloney is the notion (written and said by everyone) about Akmal being an automatic choice for his batting.. as if he actually saved the match in the end making an unbeaten knock of 80 odd runs…. Oh sorry thanks for waking me up…  Though we wish he had the potential to just do that may be just to partly compensate for three dropped catches of Hussey who… oh in fact made an unbeaten 134 just a little less than the target set for Pakistan to chase.  This has to be the only time when a keeper dropped the same guy three times in a single innings and so Kamran Akmal would make the record books one way or the other…. I do not want to take all credit away from him… indeed there is one bright spot about him… His younger brother..;-)

Misbah-ul-Haq was old when he returned to cricket and he is only getting older… We can groom two teenagers (Amir, Umar Akmal any one…?) at the cost of dragging him along.

Imran Farhat; only thing I can say is that for the one century he made against New Zeeland (with seven chances in that innings), we will pay for it for few years.

Intikhab’s next assignment should be to dress him a green Pakistani Kurtaa and replace the old fellow we all love to watch… Intikhab could act as a good cheer leader…. Only thing he is good for..

On day three when we had Aussies 80 runs ahead and 8 wickets down. I said to a friend and to my father.. ’watch these Paki losers loose this one from here’. Today a friend of mine wrote me sms saying ‘this team needs a first innings lead of 300 to hope to win a test match, 200 simply wasn’t enough’. I asked him in reply sms if he is joking as I think these idiots would choke even with a 400 run lead. He responded. No I (hoping they would get the opponents out for 360 odd) think they are good enough to chase 50-60 runs. Well said Ustaad! I can’t add much to that.