They were so much disappointed with Pakistan's performance that they demonstrated their anger by turning their backs to the players and officials of the Pakistan team to boycott them while leaving their practice.
The Pakistan team management and the players must be ashamed of their performance. Ponting took full advantage of being dropped on zero by ending the day unbeaten on 137, while vice-captain Michael Clarke also scored an unbeaten century as the pair combined for a record fourth-wicket stand for Australia against Pakistan of 231.
Ponting made Pakistan pay dearly for their mistakes in the field as he brought up only his second Test century on his home ground to guide his team out of early trouble on the opening day of third Test. As a result, Ponting plundered Pakistan bowling to amass 200 plus runs thus, making the visitors to chase a 500 plus runs target, which proved a daunting task for Pakistani batsmen to avert another shameful defeat.
First whitewash Pakistan suffered first whitewash in 1995-96 when Wasim Akram-led team toured Australia, which was followed by another clean sweep, again under Wasim Akram in 2002-03 and the third one in 2004-05 under the captainship of Waqar Younus. And now the fourth successive clean sweep in the three-Test match series.
Australian won the series not because they played well, but because Pakistan did not took the series seriously, assuming that the hosts are in the "process of rebuilding" and are beatable.
Though bowlers had played to their full potentials, it was again batting, which failed to click. The eminent downfall began when opener Salman Butt ran-outs two costly wickets and left Pakistan on 94 for four at stumps in reply to Australia's massive first-innings total of 519 for eight declared.
But before describing Salman Butt as "selfish" and "lazy," Yousuf should have realised the fact that it was excessive Twenty20 matches, which also promised lucrative money, behind their debacle.
Catches dropped Intikhab, who could not hide his disappointment at the woeful fielding by his side, believes the ineptitude stretches back to the grounds of his own country.
Mohammad Aamer's dropped catch of Ricky Ponting on nought typified a dreadful summer in which the visitors put down 14 catches in a series, spanning over 11 days of play.
"That was a bad drop wasn't it?' Intikhab lamented. "Things would have been different ... it was an easy catch, it was a very vital catch for us. Especially on a wicket like this, I can understand [why we keep losing]. If you analyse the first two Tests, we say senior players are not getting runs, but actually it is the fielding, even though we haven't got runs, but if we take those catches still we had a very good chance of winning it," the former skipper said.
Javed Miandad's concerns Meanwhile, Test great Javed Miandad has called for the heads of controversial brothers Kamran Akmal and Umar Akmal, saying they should be sacked immediately for ruining the image of Pakistan cricket.
He criticised the Pakistan management for issuing a please explain to the Akmal siblings after being unimpressed with their public statements before the third Test against Australia.
Miandad said it was an insult when a defiant Kamran repeatedly insisted that he would play in Hobart - despite Sarfraz Ahmed being sent to Australia to replace him - and younger brother Umar publicly ruled himself out without informing the team hierarchy of a possible back injury.
The Akmal brothers must pay the ultimate price for the behaviour, which dragged Pakistan cricket through the mud. Last but not the least, the fact is that "we just made a mockery of our team against the Australians and even the hosts were amazed by their own improbable victory in the second Test," Miandad said.