When a chairman talks about playing fearless cricket, but in reality he himself is scared.
When the pitches are flat roads taken from a highway road in Rawalpindi, and Karachi because the chairman is so scared that his players can't handle the pace, and decides to make a video saying this.
When the team is still carrying 35, 40, 50-year-old done and dusted players in the team.
When these done and dusted batsmen, plus some rookies, are ultra defensive no matter the match situation.
When you see a bigger crowd in a PSL dead rubber, group stage match than the opening day of a historic
test series.
When the team, led by the captain, decides to use negative bowling line tactics, and then say it's alright, no problem with it.
When the players in the team decide to have a casual chat with the other team, before the match, more focused on themselves having a good image, and not taking anything seriously.
When the captain and the team are going for the draw over the win.
When the players are always casually laughing, hugging way too much, being too cringeworthy, which looks like they don't even care about the result, they don't care about taking a test match seriously.
When the home players get outplayed in their fortress ground by the other team.
When the fans in the city of this supposedly great fortress don't even care about the match, even though the match went to day 5, the fortress was in need of protection, the best batsmen in the country scoring 196, and the home team saving a heavy loss.
When the team and the captain in this match also were going for the draw the whole time, despite the fact they had the ability to change gears and go for the win.
When the chairman realises he has messed up by using roads as the pitches for the first two matches, so he hires an Aussie to sort out the pitch of the next match, due to his love, or rather trauma of everything Australian, and gives the guy to make a change within a time period of 5-6 days.
When the crowd of the stadium located in the biggest cricket-loving city in the country, is basically empty.
When the team is once again hugging, casually laughing, joking, every single over, and doesn't take anything seriously. Worse is, when the new batsman from the other team is coming to the crease to start their innings, the bowler is coming up to them having a casual talk.
When the two spinners of the team are as useless as they can get, on the spinner is 50 years old, the other is clueless in his plan, in fact, he probably didn't have a plan apart from "bowl the over as fast as you can so that the bowler from the other end can bowl his over".
When the number 5 batsman of the team, looks like a genuine tail-ender and in this series has a worse technique, stance, balance than the number 7,8,9,10,11th batsman, who are all official tail-enders. What is worse is that this number 5 tail-ender has 13,000+ FC runs, has an average of 55+, has been playing for 10+ years, and so is one of the best products in the country.
When, once again, the batsmen are not changing gears, staying ultra-defensive, and heavily affecting their team's chance of winning the match.
When once again, the approach is to go for the draw rather than the win.
When the media of the team, ordered by the chairman, continuously post cringe-worthy videos, again and again, and again, having no intelligence, no clue at all.
When a home series is lost and the two inspiring leaders are having a casual laugh about it post-match since they probably don't care about the result.
When the team treats a home series like an exhibition tournament and doesn't care about the result.
When the team still technically has no coaches.
When pretty much all the leaders of the team and the board, probably won't make any major changes to the team, despite everything in the board and team collapsing during this series, and so the humiliation, the false promises , all the big, trash talk of "we are fearless cricketers" will continue.
Sadly one of the lowest point in our cricket history
