Indeed the bribery inquiry has been mentally draining on several key players, and morale cannot be good either, but cricket is something one learns at the school of hard knocks, and, besides, the players should be used to controversy by now. Zimbabwe, like it or not, were the better team. At least, at batting. Pakistan has always had a problem in the batting department. That Javed Miandad is the only batsman from the Land of the Pure to average in the fifties in tests is ample proof of that.
Batting is all about discipline.
You hit the loose ones and leave the rest. Try telling that to Saleem Malik - he seems to specialize in getting out to wide leg breaks. The point is, the Pakistanis have ignored the problems inherent in their cricket and now they are paying the price. For years nothing was done about the bribery problems. And now, the lack of professionalism, the in fighting, and down right unsportsmanlike antics of the game s practitioners has hurt the country s team.