Sources who are privy to the internal workings of the Pakistani international cricket team have revealed some disquieting news about the state of the Pakistani dressing room.  As was reported in the cricket news, the team is “bitterly divided into two camps”, those of the captain and the vice captain. Reportedly there is a complete lack of trust and unity between these two camps.

This unfortunate dichotomy of the team was discernible during the recently concluded Australia Pakistan series which was held in the United Arab Emirates. Reportedly captain Younis Khan’s faction includes Shoaib Akhtar, Umar Gul, Shahid Afridi, and Fawad Alam, whereas Shoaib Malik, Kamran Akmal, Salman Butt and Rao Iftikhar Anjum had allied themselves with the Misbah-ul-Haq camp.

What is also a troubling aspect of the unfortunate situation is the inability of the coach, Intikhab Alam to unite the team and make sure that they operate and play as a single entity rather than warring factions. Whereas the coach should be counseling his players and trying to play a positive role in bringing together the players, this does not seem to be his top priority, sources in the cricket news have claimed. Rather Alam seems to be more interested in keeping the powers that be at the PCB happy.

At this crucial juncture when Pakistan cricket is being more and more marginalised in the international cricket community, the Pakistan team should come together and become once more, the aggressive, fighting unit that they have been so famous for being. Playing good cricket, will, more than anything else make the international cricket community sit up and take notice of the Pak cricket team once again becoming a force to reckon with in international cricket.

There is especially a great sentiment of resentment at this time in Pakistan against the recently taken decision by ICC to deprive Pakistan of the chance to part host the World Cup 2011 along with three of its sub continental neighbours. This may or may not have been a decision taken in haste and one of over reaction; however it has had the result of further isolating and segregating Pakistan cricket from the rest of international cricket.

That there is tremendous cricket talent in Pakistan is undeniable and every effort must be made by the intentional cricket community to see to it that Pakistan is brought back within the fold. For its part what Pak cricket can do, is just play the best cricket they possibly can!

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