Former Pakistan captain blasts team’s Cricket World Cup showing<br />Squad looks like "a fractured outfit" with two setbacks to open tournament, as blame game ensues.<br /><br />ISLAMABAD—Pakistan’s former captain and coach Javed Miandad said Saturday that the huge loss against the West Indies in Cricket World Cup was “shambolic.”<br />“Shambolic is a mild word ... It really hurts to see the planning of Pakistan’s think-tank,” Miandad wrote at the tournament’s website.<br />Fast bowler Jerome Taylor’s triple strike left Pakistan lurching at 1-4 in pursuit of 311-run target before the team was dismissed for 160 in 39 overs, failing to play out full quote of 50 overs for the second successive match.<br />“There were no king cobras on the pitch to scare the Pakistan batsmen. Jerome Taylor simply exploited the weakness of Pakistan batsmen by bowling in the right areas — just outside off stump,” Miandad said.<br />“It was simply game, set and match at one for four after Pakistan’s top order was rolled over by Taylor.”<br />Pakistan lost its opening match to archrival India last Sunday and will take on Zimbabwe, United Arab Emirates, South Africa and Ireland in the remaining group matches.<br />“The men in ‘shocking green’ look like a fractured outfit and the wounds are only getting deeper and deeper,” Miandad warned.<br />“The scars of defeat against India were still fresh and West Indies has simply rubbed more salt onto it.”<br /><br />Pakistan top order batsmen had been struggling to cope with the wickets in Australia and New Zealand with opening batsman Ahmed Shehzad, Younis Khan and Haris Sohail all failing against the new ball.<br />Captain Misbah-ul-Haq even promoted Younis as Shehzad’s opening partner against India, but the veteran of 263 ODIs could score only six runs and was out off the first ball against the West Indies for zero in his usual No. 3 spot.<br />Surprisingly, regular wicket-keeper Sarfraz Ahmed, who had scored prolifically against Australia and New Zealand in last year’s test and ODI series in the UAE, is yet to get
