Desperately seeking Younis
In his blog on the Dawn website, Ahsan Butt claims the Test series between Australia and Pakistan was won by Younis Khan
Judhajit
25-Feb-2013
In his blog on the Dawn website, Ahsan Butt claims the Test series between Australia and Pakistan was won by Younis Khan. The reasoning was that after the hugely impressive Umar Akmal and Mohammad Aamer, no one’s stature had made greater strides in the last two weeks.
His replacement as captain put in such a shameful display on the fourth morning that it became immediately clear that we would lose. To be honest, I actually wasn’t that upset watching us throw our wickets away, because I basically expected it; the morning session told me everything I needed to know about our mental state. We wanted Australia to give in because we were too afraid of actually having to work to win the game.
Writing in the same paper, Qamar Ahmed believes the current Pakistan squad neither have the gumption nor the guts or the skill to cope with what will be in store in the final Test at Hobart. He predicts a result similar to Melbourne and Sydney.
From 1964 when the first Pakistan team visited Australia led by Hanif Mohammad who scored a hundred in the first innings and was given out when few runs short of another century in the second innings at the MCG in the only Test that Pakistan played to now, our aspirations of a Test series win in Australia thus remains a dream.