One thing this incident does show is that the dressing room in Pakistan Cricket is not a supportive environment, in fact, it is a dangerous environment.
Imagine being a youngster newly introduced to the team and watching players and staff members fight with each other.
This is actually a series of incidents, which have shockingly shown us that the PCB is unable to maintain decorum inside perhaps the most important place in a cricket game.
Go back to New Zealand, and you'll see Imad Wasim and Shadab Khan having verbal exchanges with one another, and Hafeez interjecting to figure out what exactly went wrong.
Go to 2020 England where Haris Rauf conceded a six and had a heated verbal exchange with Babar Azam.
Even recently, Babar Azam expressed his disappointment over the selection of players in the South Africa tour, and it's clear that Babar, Misbah, and Mohammad Wasim don't see eye to eye.
2019 Australia, Asif Ali tries to go for a six and miscues it and receives verbal lashing from Babar Azam on the pitch at that very moment.
You can look at the entire season of Quetta Gladiators, where Sarfaraz Ahmed violently yelled at his bowlers and fielders when they made mistakes, a toxic environment for growth.
You can look at the Shaheen Shah Afridi vs Sarfaraz Ahmed altercation, along with the Iftikhar Ahmed vs Mohammad Amir one as well.
The point I'm trying to make is that maybe this is why our team is in such shambles, it's not the lack of options, but it's how poison is killing the system from inside. You can keep decorating the team by finding new, younger, faster, stronger players, but until you get rid of this toxicity, you won't see any improvement.
When a player on another team drops a catch, the bowler is entitled to show a response of disappointment, but you see the captain encouraging the player, and trying to motivate the player. In Pakistan, you see the entire team hold their heads, and I've seen our bowlers say things to the player in question multiple times.
India lost the WTC Final, but they walked off as a team, they displayed professionalism, and furthermore, you don't hear these types of things from any other team because the media is told to back off from these matters.
It is disappointing, but the truth is that our entire cricketing structure is in a deplorable state. The fact that we are still somehow winning games is questionable.
It only takes a good management setup, good team environment, and motivation to turn an average cricketer into a world-class one.
If any other top nation got someone like Shaheen Shah Afridi, you'd see him as a far better bowler than he is right now playing for Pakistan, and that is a fact.
Player development is crucial, but so is good management, of which we have neither.
