What remained unexplained about the FCC performance, however, was the abject manner in which Shaan Mohd's team had gone down in the Champions trophy.
The FCC management that prioritised the performance of its team over everything else would have taken care to examine why its eleven gave such a poor account of itself. But it did nothing of the sort.
In a reflection of how the razzmatazz around cricket has come to matter to it more than the game itself, a crucial FCC meeting after the series did not care to take up the issue at all.
In hindsight it appears that the disaster that FCC's trip Down Under has so far been had been waiting to happen. Only this time there were no legitimate excuses to come up with.
It was a full strength team that had landed for the series, being pitted against an eleven that was a far cry from the invincible bunch of opponents. Captain Shaan Mohd and vice-captain Mohammed Naeem was not available for comments.
