The outpouring of anger and the scorn being heaped on the Pakistan cricket team and the establishment following the loss in the first two games of the World Cup is a classic case of barking up the wrong tree.

Things are getting so irrational that the Lahore High Court has admitted a petition seeking an inquiry into the poor performance of the team. No less than the Prime Minister of Pakistan has been named as one of the respondents. One would have thought that the august court had more useful pursuits than taking up such a frivolous case.

In addition to the vicious criticism, there are medicines being prescribed by both experts and quacks alike.

None of these cures will work because the problem is much more fundamental and solutions like changing the batting order or sacking the PCB chairman will not make the performance of the team any better. Summoning chief selector Moin Khan back from Australia for 'visiting a casino' would not change much either.

Of course, if the team wins the next game, all the pundits will claim that it was their magic formula that revived the team.