Decision after decision going against them, they never lost the spirit, apart for a moment or 2 of frusturated moments they kept thier moral up. Unlike some teams "ahem ahem" they neither went apeshit on umpire nor threatened to go home, nor went to opposition team dressing room and asked that appeal be withdrawn

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Yes, I would give this to them but this batting approach is not correct.
The loss was on the cards so they should have at least tried. Their was absolutely nothing to lose. Our batting approach was to make the loss as less humiliating as possible. There was no will to win ,,, just resist as long as you can before the curtains went down on you. They knew they can't draw it either. I think they should have at least tried to win by going after the bowlers and taking the war into their zone... again there was nothing to lose, the game was already gone.

Give it a break qts of chasing it down or drawing it would have been relevent if we were not 36/3 day 3 stumps. The top order got blown, biggest wkt was azhar and then lost night watchman very next morning.

Pak batted out they did try thier best its not like they were just blocking they were making runs at every oppurtunity

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This is exactly what the question is .... They did try their best ...... to achieve what ?? What was their goal? Obviously they were not trying to win and they knew they can't draw it? Wasn't it fair enough to go all guns after the bowlers even if it was 36/3? What was the point in getting into their shells like turtles?

I think they would have gone for win if Asad and YK were still there at the end of today. Asad's wicket IMO was the turning point and momentum shifted right back. Asad has to learn how to keep his focus in tact all the time.

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yes salute to them but our batting approach is same like before and it will comeback and haunt us sooner then later

no yar ... u r chasing 500 + ... what good an 80 run innings at SR of 40 serve you? You simply choosing a slow death for yourself.
I don't think they even tried to win ... it was like ... useless tuk tuk in hope of rain.

^buck.....playing at a strike rate of 40 while trying to save a test is pretty much par for the course.....

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what exactly were you expecting in the second innings? a 37 ball century and a 80 ball double century from younis khan as pakistan blitzkreiged its way to the highest run chase to win a test match in the history of the game? get real.

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it would have been fun lol

Afridi would have gone for it ... and Misbah would have brought in a toilet paper roll with him on the pitch.

and we would have lost by 450 runs instead of 200. at least losing by 200 runs is respectable, especially after the number of decisions that went against us.

also, please do not mention afridi and test match cricket in the same sentence after what he did the last time he played that format.

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wait what difference does it make to lose by 400 odd runs or 200 runs??? in the end it counts as a loss lol, might as well go down firing.... not saying afridi should be in test matches just saying loss is a loss whether by 400 runs or 200 runs lol, if you think this loss was respectable then you are wrong my friend

go down firing!!!

this is one stupid argument by buckfush, doesn't even make any sense.

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