Partly Facetious: Performance of Pakistan against New Zealand

"I am sick and tired of losing."
"Why don't you form a coalition with the government and..."
"Don't be facetious. I am not referring to politics of coalitions - overt or covert - I am referring to the performance of our cricket team."
"Oh well don't worry about that - even with the rather disturbing performance of our team in its match against New Zealand our team will play in the quarter finals."
"I talked to many people yesterday and you would be surprised at the overwhelming view held by a cross section of the people."
"I can make an educated guess about what was the consensus opinion."
"What?"
"Same accusations as those that led to the five-year-long suspension of three of our players recently, a timeframe that may well end their careers in cricket at least."
"The three are appealing the decision but more importantly let's not forget that the public was behind the three players, you know there was talk of victimising Pakistanis by the ICC and all that..."
"Yes I do recall but the performance of our team in the match against New Zealand has led to a general perception that the team gave away the match as opposed to losing it."
"Such charges..."
"It doesn't matter if the charge is true or not, to me it implies that few in this country actually consider the three suspended players innocent."
"Well we are a nation that believes the worst of our own. Look at how we regard the President, the Prime Minister, his wife and his son as well as his brothers, the former Minister for Water and Power and..."
"Have you heard the expression there is no smoke without fire."
"I think in this country the expression needs to be amended a bit."
"What do you mean?"
"The smoke is seen only after the fire has reduced everything to ashes."
"Ah yes and the investigating officers put all the ashes in a doggie bag and export it."