Match-fixing, ball tampering, drugs, infighting, death terrorism and genital warts have all played their part in the farcical soap opera that is the Pakistan cricket side, but the latest ugly turn in the saga of the tortured team could be the straw that breaks the camel's back.
The rift between talented batsmen Mohammad Yousuf and Younus Khan has now seen both players effectively banned for life after a disastrous tour of Australia, where they lost three Tests, five one-day internationals and one Twenty20 match. The PCB has put its foot down on dissent within player ranks and has made an example of Pakistan's two most accomplished players.
The PCB says it is making a decision for the future of Pakistan cricket and that it will help arrest the decline of the game in the passionate cricketing nation. But in sacking the two men best equipped to educate the next generation of Pakistan internationals, is the PCB not cutting off its nose despite its face?
Even before Pakistan travelled to Australia and imploded at every step along the way, cricket in the troubled country was already on the ropes. The terrorist attack on the Sri Lankan team bus just over 12 months ago all but ended any hope of international cricket being played on Pakistani soil for the foreseeable future.
It will mean that a generation of young cricket fans will not get to see their heroes play and as a result funding for the development of the game will dry up. The ICC has said it will step in to help negate this, but you have to wonder after this latest episode whether that amounts to dumping weight on a sinking ship.
Player infighting is certainly not new in the Pakistan side. Big personalities have often dominated meaning that the team's potential was not reached because the individual became central and no team ethic existed.
But on the odd occasions when the stars aligned and the various egos all pulled into the same direction, Pakistan cricket has produced something memorable, such as the successes in the 1992 World Cup and the 2009 World Twenty20.
Former firebrand paceman Waqar Younis recently took over coaching the team and immediately stamped himself on the team, saying he wanted an aggressive unified Pakistan. A week into his tenure and the PCB has not only thrown Yousuf and Younus out of the team, but has also banned Rana Naved Ul-Hasan and Shoaib Mailik for a year. All of this was done without consultation with Waqar.
The decision, which reeks of politics, robs the Pakistan Test side of international experience worth over 28,000 runs between the two seniors player banned. It also leaves the side virtually no hope of defending its World Twenty20 title in the Caribbean in May.
Perhaps more astonishingly is that players who arguably acted more appallingly during the tour of Australia got off with mere fines. Kamran Akmal, who single handedly allowed Australia back into the SCG Test with his horrible glovework and then threw a hissy fit when it was suggested he should be replaced, was fined and put on probation, while younger brother Umar, who at one stage feigned injury as a protest over his brother's treatment, received the same treatment.
Shahid Afridi, who partook in the most blatant act of ball tampering in the history of the game when