Optimism gone awry

2026-02-16 - 03:36

They came, they saw, they collapsed. After the hullabaloo of the boycott and “un-boycott”, after the claim of a moral victory in the immoral corridors of the ICC, there was some expectation that Pakis­tan’s chutzpah in cricket politics would translate onto the cricket pitch. But it was not to be. For the Pakistani fan, it is usually the expectation that kills you. Beyond