Coping with despair

Yet another Test series against Australia has seen Pakistan swept cleanly aside and many people have announced they will stop following Pakistan cricket forthwith. You can't blame them, writes Saad Shafqat in the Dawn, because frustrations have to be vented somehow, and one does what one can.

Ultimately, the failure in Australia is Mohammad Yousuf’s to own. He was the best batsman and the captain but he wilted. Even schoolboy captains would not have set the defeatist field that he configured on that fateful fourth morning in Sydney. Yousuf may be capable of the most silken and sublime batting strokes, but as a leader he is simply not good enough.