Who is responsible for Irfan’s plight?

Sunil Gavaskar, in his column, tries to investigate the reasons behind Irfan Pathan's spectacular decline as a Test bowler since his hat-trick at Karachi earlier this year. He also commends Dilip Vengsarkar's decision to send Irfan back to India to regain his form in domestic cricket. Read the full piece in The Hindustan Times.

Irfan, on his first tour to Australia in 2003-04, had his jaw hanging open when he spotted his hero Wasim Akram at breakfast in the hotel where the team and the TV crew were staying, and he wasted no time in approaching the great man through another teammate to talk about swing bowling and all the tricks needed to get batsmen out