SHAHID Afridi's 'bite' in full view of 28 TV cameras and an unknown number of photographers was the last nail in the coffin of our cricket team's dreadful visit to Australia, where they were supposed to play competitive cricket.

The team is now bruised. Prior to this tour the problem was our batting and specially the opening partners, but now the issues have been swelled to poor fielding, lack of planning, absence of a game plan and mediocre bowling as well as ridiculous running between the wickets, to name a few.

Like most of the government departments, the PCB is also being run by incompetent people. There is no one to take the blame for this humiliation.

The PCB chairman has now formed a committee, as usual, to probe the lost series. I wonder what is there to probe? Even an ordinary cricket lover can tell what went wrong and who did what?

Captain Muhammad Yousuf till the last, I heard, was still 'satisfied' with his team and was very optimistic that previous teams with big names in their line-ups did worse than his team.

Can there be anything worse than a whitewash in test series, as well as a whitewash in a five ODI series, and not even three? I mean what will be the point where Mr Skipper will be 'unsatisfied' with the team.

To save our cricket, we need revamping and a complete overhaul of the PCB and we need some good coaches (aptly available in Pakistan) to work with our talented new lot of players. The rhetoric of 'team is going through a rebuilding phase' is now an old adage.

ANAS A. KHAN
Edmonton