Pakistan are two wickets away from their first win in 3 years in Test cricket. The attritional team plagued with immense tussle of egos and conflicts followed by inferiority complex owing to the torn situations back home is now getting close to a win amidst farce in the captaincy, farce in the top of the order and farce in almost everything.
That shows how individual performances matter in a game which is perhaps the longest played with team spirits. Malik and Yusuf wont see an eye to eye, Misbah is given a booty to this career by his mate and the captain for the tour.
And the original captain, the drama king is not even in the picture. He is the man who takes most breaks in the international cricket, whimsical and impulsive. Apt that he ran to the problems within the team. Reports now say that he is not even going to Australia for form reasons. Well, thats good. Pakistan has never succeded against Australia in ages now. Last test win against them came good 16 years back thanks to a deadly miss by Ian Healy.
Today's win would be hailed as great event in terror torn Pakistan, in fact the ego battles of the senior players and the mess Butt has spread is more horrific than the ISI sponsered and Taliban fired terror wave back in that country.
Contrasting fortunes, a win for the embattled country would see them amongst victory in 3 years and one win to their traditional rivals would see them going on the top of Test rankings.
I imagine how Pakisani players would react when they would win. How bugsy rabbit Kamran Akamal would go to his Danya Danya, the Gujju and hug him. How the opportunist and the worst fielder in international cricket, the Younis Youhana nee Mohd Yusuf would walk off with his gang and Malik would walk with his gang. How the drug peddler would give tips to raw young Mohd Aamer to keep the drugs, eat it, get banned and then come back.
Wow. Pakistan cricket is never short of Ekta Kapoor's errand soap opera tales.
