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Pakistan captain Mohammad Yousuf has shouldered the blame for Pakistan`s shock 36-run defeat against Australia in Sydney, and has said his dismissal was the turning point of Pakistan`s chase on the fourth afternoon.
After a disappointing morning session for the visitors, Australia set the visitors 176 to win their first Test in 15 years against them. Pakistan began the chase well, but lost wickets in clusters, a pattern similar to their failed, low-total chases in Sri Lanka and New Zealand last year. Salman Butt and Faisal Iqbal fell in the same over and just after tea Yousuf and Misbah-ul-Haq fell in the space of three balls to Nathan Hauritz.
It took a special return catch from Hauritz to dismiss him, but Yousuf called it a "pathetic" stroke. "My shot this afternoon was pathetic and it turned the game," he said. "Otherwise we would have won, not easily, but won. Yeah I blame myself."
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