Re: Why does Pakistan struggle so badly in Australia?
Pakistan did win a test match in Australia in 1995,Mushtaq took 9 wickets in that match while inzi scored some crucial runs,
and they should have actually drew the series in 1999 because First test match was looking like a draw before the 5th day started but Razzaq(again) went at the first ball of the day 5 to Warne and rest of the batting line up folded up meakly,and in the end they lost by 10 wickets,and then 2nd test match which they should have won comprehensively and had they won that one,then who knows they might had performed much better in the 3rd test and win the series.
In last 2 series though Pakistan did very badly against Australia(again they should have won columbo 2002 match where they were 170/2 chasing 315) but that is mostly due to the their batting and pathetic fielding,now the thing is ,till 2005 only Inzamam was one batsman in the side which They could have realy relied upon,only This year that Yousaf and Younas have come to their own(and will remain so hopefully).
But before this year as i said Inzamam used to be the only hope and Interesting thing is that he missed 5 out of those 6 test matches in last 2 contests and one match which he did play he was out for 1 & 0. So there was no match winner at that time in the side.Now e.g If Butt And yousaf could have scored 100s against Aus in last 2 test matches then there was no reason Inzimam coud,nt .
and the one other reason is(which might not look that significant to some but is very important) that they played THAT SAMI CRAP in most of those matches who can,t win you matches even against BD let alone Aystralia ,as we saw in first 2 test matches of last series in Australia that whenever Shoaib used to get a wicket ,Mr Sami used to come and release all the pressure from the other end,even Shoaib said this thing when he came back from Australia.
But hopefully next time these 2 sides do meet Pakistan will put up a much better show(also the fact that next series will be in Pakistan and most of the Australian greats will be gone by then)