Melbourne, January 09: Pakistan will hope to pick up the pieces from the traumatic Sydney defeat as they build-up to what will now be a dead rubber at Hobart, where the best they can do is avoid a fourth successive whitewash at the hands of Australia.
The squad has taken the 36-run loss hard and Mohammad Yousuf, the captain, has been trying since to lift the side for the final Test, which begins on January 14. “The team was very, very disappointed after Sydney,” Yousuf told Cricinfo.
“But as I told them after the Melbourne loss, we have to see that we continue to play good cricket. We could and should have won at Sydney but we didn’t. Few people thought that we could match Australia before we came on this tour, but we played very well here for three days and had one very poor day.”
——-Agencies