Loud Thinking

George Dobell at Edgbaston
June 10, 2013.

“Sometimes you wonder what Imran Farhat or Shoaib Malik have to do to be dropped.”

No defeat is welcome, but it was the wearingly familiar nature of this loss that will really sting Pakistan.

None of the fatal flaws will come as a surprise. No-one will be shocked to have seen Pakistan drop a crucial chance and no-one will have been surprised to see Pakistan’s batting prove as weak as a kitten.

An asthmatic kitten with a broken paw and commitment to pacifism.

They have now been bowled out within their 50 overs in seven of their last 12 ODIs.