Pakistan have gotten used to defeats as if losing means nothing of any significance for them or any consequence.
This is a match after their 9th or 10th ODI that they have lost straight before this ongoing one and they are playing it as if losing to Afghanistan is all in a days work for Pakistan.
Even if Pakistan defeats Afghanistan today, the lack luster performance indicates deeper team selection and mis-management issues.
Pakistan's bowling attack has been left in tatters by constant chopping and changing when it used to be formidable as recent as Champions trophy.
The recent run of defeats started thanx to Inzimam and Mickey, who "rested" the main players for recent Australia series in UAE and made the worst capain in recent PSL, Shoaib Malik, as captain while "resting" Sarfaraz with others who were not too happy about it.
The other players who were supposedly rested as in Shadab, preferred to play domestic cricket, proving the forced "rest" was a stupid concoction between Inzimam and Micky Arthur.
So all the chopping and changing in the team in the name of resting has been detrimental as the team has forgotten its winning ways and gotten used to getting defeated.
Another aspect of the duo of Inzimam and Micky getting things wrong is not playing the most talented and century upon century scoring batsman for the last couple of years in nt only domestic but in A matches as well.
They took the prolific domestic performer batsman Abid Ali, who also scored centuries against a strong England A side, along to UAE but did not play him in any match untill the last ODI and that too because of Mother Nature as ImamulHaq got fever and couldn't play.
Abid Ali proved his capabilities and the obnoxious mis-management of coach and selectors by scoring a flawless and big Hundred on debue.
Again, during recent England series, Abid Ali was not included in playing eleven until the last match, in which he looked really good facing the best English bowling attack but was unfortunately given out LBW when the ball was going down leg but only grazing the legstump by a hair's width so the Umpirs wrong decision still was given out. Hard luck for Abid Ali but team management and Selectors got excuse to kick him out of the team on just one unproven performance and marginal dismissal.
Abid Ali has been kicked out of the worldcup squad when he should have been in the team instead of underperforming Haris Sohail or out of form Shoaib Malik.
The bowling attack has been reduced to nothing significant to write home about either. The management and selection has all but destroyed the lethal team wining combination. It looks a daunting task for the players to get back to their wining ways.
Lets see if our players get the better of their bosses off the field and make a miraculous turn around possible against the odds.
