If you have spent some of your summers watching Pakistan play Tests in Australia, you might have a feeling known to schoolteachers. Anyone in charge of students can tell you about the most frustrating ones: the ones who are bright and interesting but for one reason or another just can’t get things together.
They act out, they’re unpredictable, and the most frustrating part is that this includes at times living up to their potential. They might knuckle down for a while, get their test scores up. Then on the last day of term they steal a bunch of chemicals from the science lab to burn down the bike shed.
