Misbah you are an honourable player. Thats how everyone in any profession should behave and act.

Now this is called "Thumping" not a 9-8 narrow escape in polo.

If the target was 132 runs then Pakistan had a chance.

Having hopes of Afridi!!

@event horizon No absolutely not. Pakistan's worst enemy is its own batsmen who will go to any length to ensure a batting collapse resulting in defeat. Pakistan is not fighting Australia, it is fighting its own batsmen.

Whole the nation can't understand if Moin is on our side or what. What is the meaning of playing Umar Amin 30th time and that too in place of Umar Akmal or Misbah. I could just scratch my hair again.

Is Umar Amin better than any of these: Umar Akmal, Misbah, Azhar Ali, Saad Nasim, Shoaib Malik, Haris Sohail?? For God sake his ODI average in 17 matches is 19.

APART FROM favours done to Umar Amin on expense of Pakistan, The problem with pakistan is that non of these players can play a big innings. All of them are 30s and 40s players at best. No team can score big if they don't have big innings players. For pakistan, only way to score 200+ is when all the batsmen score 30s and 40s.

@Sudhakar Loss is a Loss if its 10-0 or1-0

Pak lost by one run.

Again, we lost a match that could have easily won! Shahid Afridi had the best platform to preform and justify his position....but again he failed. Our Senior citizen team can not handle the young teams. Cricket is certainly going the Squash, Hockey way......heartbreaking? Where did we go wrong?

very poor game by pakistani...chokers..

Now that's called self goal in cricket

Yoúnis Khan is the only player who can play a big innings. And without some one able to play big innings you can never score 200. We have players of 30s and 40s and if they by chance get to 50 they get exhausted.

MOIN KHAN must go and Afridi should follow too.

Its indeed a contesting match both team fought hard but the Australians won due to their better fielding

Maxwell......unbelievable Stuff...!!! Pakistan new choker in world cricket now. Bad cricket indeed from pak. This was easy match...!!

Thank you misbah. You have DONE your job.

More than a week ago I went out on a limb and predicted this............but I feel sad about the state our cricket is in .

What a thriller! Well played Pakistan. Afridi should take a cue from Misbah.

Pakistan and India street children can play better than their National team players. No hopes on India and Pakistan teams to win the World Cup.

i am fane of your team again upset team performance since a long time

Till now I used to think only Indian team used to invent new ways to loose a match. Wow now we have a company. BTW, where was Umar, guys he is the future of Pak cricket and you made him sit outside. Shame.

@Sayyar Khan Sudhakar is talking of the operative word "thumping" -- using that word to describe a 9-8 win is a bit over-the-top

@sudhakar - super! :)

@sudhakar :)

@Surprise LOL, your are indeed surprising, Surprise. Where does India figure in this?

Australia struggled so hard to lose..they even gifted a "life" by not appealing a run-out. The rest is the best comedy played out on the cricket pitch in recent times....

Had I been the selector, I'll select this team for the world cup: Shehzad, Sarfraz, Younis Khan (captain), Sohaib Maqsood, Umar Akmal, Saad Nasim, Hafeez, Hammad Azzam, Afridi/Baber, Tanveer, Irfan

By the way the Aussies did not appeal for a clear runout, else Pakistan would have lost in 49th over itself.

Pakistan zindabaad! It is definitely not easy to be a Pakistani Cricket Fan, but we love our team and will continue to hope they will bring World Cup 2015 home!

Mohsin bhai please help us out of this crisis....lets get players with right mental attitude ahead of raw talent. If Wasim Akram can coach Kolkata Knight Riders why not have Mohsin and Wasim leading a cricketing revival for Team Pakistan.

Shame on you Afridi for playing such a reckless shot as captain. The entire match was a lesson in how to turn victory into defeat. Somehow i felt Bailey was more stunned than Pakistani camp!

Respect for Misbah!!

What an exciting and nail biting finish. Any team could have won in the end. Nevertheless, the decision to drop 40 years old Misbah-ul-Haq was 100 percent right. In the end, it was anybody's game.

@AJ I agree. I still cannot understand why on earth the selectors preferred Umar Amin over Umar Akmal. Was it a typo.

come on it was a very close game...pakistani players fought well...

@event horizon I doubt it.

PCB still stubborn to carry on with Moin Khan,waqar Younis & comony it's not the players fault the right players were not chosen these players are scared of their own shadows no confidence in themselves .

Soon will be another white wash in test cricket, it is painful to say but this is truth after watching disasterous batting collapse. Watching cricket while living abroad brings one close to your loving homeland but it is really sad seeing your country losing all the time

What a game and shame? I read all the comments here and in cricinfo. What I fail to understand is why is everyone blaming Misbah? He was not even playing. Pakistan is known to make cricket very entertaining for the viewers and spectators. We lost fair and square, credit should go to Australia for holding their nerves and being victorious. Pakistan needs to go back to the drawing board and figure out what we need to do to get us back to the victory path.

I have never been happier with the team selected for this last ODI. first of all, it had no Ajmal, Younis Khan, Hafeez or Misbah. We experimented and tried a few more young lads. guys listen, this was never an important game anyway. All in all we should have also rested M. Irfan. We played well and we should get a little more of these games that totally rely on youngsters and give them equal opportunity to come and win the game from behind. for example in a series against Zimbabwe when we had already won the ODI series we had all the senior players playing in the dead rubber game. Why? ICC's ban on Ajmal is a blessing in disguise, to be honest, I mean he rarely wins us matches. He is mediocre at best. Now that we have a chance at something without him we should always encourage PCB. In the end I am more than happy from today's game. And sure If Misbah comes back I'll be happy to have him back at the expense of U Amin. after all it was Misbah's correct decision to rest and test others.

Yet another whitewash- Pakistan should be playing against Bdesh/ Afghanistan/Zimbabwe for real competition

Part of the players mind is occupied with Kashmir hence less concentration

three down one to go! hafeez, younis, misbah, afridi, none of them deserve place in this side! i am much happier losing like this with a young side, than the so called experienced players. I think we can only afford one senior player and that is probably younis.

@Sayyar Khan : Then DAWN should have termed it as "loss" or "defeat"...where did "thumping" come into the picture? If a 9-8 defeat is called as "thumping" then what would you call a whitewash like this?

I am off for some months. I suggest PCB select me in place of Afridi? Guarantee better outcome! *(But I will not have Umar Amin in my team).

A very embarrassing, yet physiological defeat for Pak! Wrong shot selection & careless batting are 2 different things, but today, both of these were the case with the batsmen! The top order batsmen are the only ones who have done well, because they have batted with no pressure on them. The rest can bat, there techniques are ok; but pressure & a negative mindset is what is crumbling the players. A team physiologist needs to work with the players, as coaches cannot really do much about mental issues. In most situations, even if 2 or 3 of the top four or five go on to get a 50 or an 80, that sets up the game. The rest can build partnerships. Batsmen who come in can then play freely & chip in with quick 30's or 40's. But Pak batsmen are just not doing that at the moment, and that's what's really hurting the team. However, on a more positive side of things, the bowling was tidy & disciplined, the players seemed to be fit, & the fielders were aggressive. Inshallah Pakistan will come back stronger in the Test matches & lets just hope that this mental "blockade" is taken care off.

Everybody played tovtheir ability. The better team won

It is clear that we donot have brilliant players. We need to emphasize a team effort instead of rewarding just individual performance. A little better fielding and little better batting will have huge rewards instead of trying to go for the fence, singles and doubles shall do.expect 30 to 50 runs from top seven and 10-20 from the rest. Let's not change the line up after a couple individual failure. Expecting to perform in every series puts too much pressure on players and effects performance .Jamshed may be a classic example of great expectations. Get ready for tests . You can do it

Misbah is an honourable player and a man of dignity. He gave his place for other players to play, practice, learn....but honestly, besides Misbah, Sarfaraz, Junaid Khan and YK.....all other players in the Pakistan team (test, odi, twenty20) are a joke. Ahmed Shezad has some potential but I have a feeling it is just matter of time that he will get into some trouble with another player.

If you have observed that the two openers have been very consistent through the one day series. Why can't we find more batsmen of that caliber. We should drop all these low performers.

A complete mess and a comical display of cricket by Pakistan. You can learn from Pakistan 100 ways of losing a game even if you are in a commanding position. Previous GURU was India. Recruit some CEOs from corporate companies to run PCB. Generals and diplomats have ruined the game in Pakistan.

@Calcutta Man shouldn't you be reading the Hindu Times.

Well played dont forget that this the only match with close lost thats how ODI and 2020 should be. Misbhah please dont'n try to come back ether Afridi I am not big fan of him and his reckless batting but atleast some work as captain on the field and bowling. Misbhah is pathetic captain i hope this may be permanent self removal from team.

Likes of Sohail Tanvir should never be in the team. Result is obvious.

It is a warning signal..Even without Jhonson and Nathan, Pak could not win...Time to review the performance of the team/players

Afridi and S Tanveer - two senior players - have done us proud (again). A win by a totally mismanaged team would have been very unfair on Australia and in the end it did not happen and the stronger team did win in the end. Let's face the reality.

Foosh Foosh Afridi !!!

@AJ And the coach should go too. He was a great bowler, but he has not got a clue otherwise. None of the Pakistani bowlers bowl yorkers under his coaching regime.

@sap india Not just fielding, their batsman/bowlers can score runs, all 11 of them. This Pakistani side is a disgrace. Can't they teach the bowlers to bat as well, to be able to get 2 runs in 6 balls without swinging the bat in the air.

@Calcutta Man It is thumping if you cannot score TWO runs in SIX balls, with 2 wickets in hand.

@pranav "pakistani players fought well..." Really? Unable to score two runs in six balls with 2 wickets in hand??

@Saiyed zaidi As a cricket fan, I had admired Moin Khan and Waqar Younis, but neither are up to the job.

LOL !!! Lala please stop playing cricket

@dr sundeep malla The next WC in is Australia... we will see how the Indian superstars would perform Outside their homeland? by the way, do you really know the meaning of 'Choker'?

Shahid Afridi a great all rounder, His records 384 ODS 7665 runs, 50s- 36 , 100s- 6 AVG. 23.22 What he is doiong in PAK Team? Just throw him out and replace with young players.And he is projected as ODI caipten? Its time to wake up PCB.

Misbah ruled himself out because of poor form? It is not chivalry, it is cowardice.

@Ali hasan - I totally agree with you except that these egotistic players should have been dropped years ago!

2 runs in 6 balls with 2 wickets. And still lose !!

@Kartik ...we lost it in the dressing room. Need to bat with straight bat and bowl with a straight arm. Need a strong leader and coach. Will bounce back and fight like wounded tigers.

@Waqas I am really surprised that still some people are living in fools' paradise. There are pakistanis who still love Salman, Aamir and Asif and think that they are innocent. Don' mix up Pakistan zindabad with PCB.s foolish decisions which are ruining cricket in Pakistan