The colourful and controversial Inzamam-ul-Haq brings the curtain down on his one-day career here on Wednesday as Pakistan end their tragedy-hit ICC CWC 2007 with a match against Zimbabwe.
Professionally shattered by the defeat against Ireland and personally devastated by the sudden death of coach Bob Woolmer in the aftermath of the loss, the 37-year-old is left playing only for pride.
Ironically, a much-needed victory for his team would also have the knock-on effect of putting his tormentors Ireland into the second round Super Eights.
Inzamam has told his mis-firing team that they owe it to Woolmer's memory to win in style on Wednesday.
"He was always helpful to the players and his feelings were with them," said Inzamam.
"He was a very good coach but a super human being. Because of this he had a lot of respect from the team.
"After the match against Ireland he was upset but he said to me and to all the players that these things happen in cricket. He was brave and knew how to handle the situation when everybody was feeling down.
"He will be well remembered. Now we are in trouble because we are out of the ICC CWC. But over the last three years our win ratio has been very high."
Inzamam has played 377 one-day matches over a 15-year career, scoring 11,702 runs at 39.53 including 10 hundreds and 83 fifties.
He was part of the ICC CWC 1992 winning team famously sparking his side into the final with a blistering 60 from 37 balls in the semi-final against New Zealand.
Younis Khan, the man widely expected to take over from Inzamam as skipper, said that the whole team is still shocked by the events of the weekend.
"Every Pakistani wanted us to do well at this ICC CWC and we are very sorry we let them down," Younis said.
"After we beat West Indies at home everybody expected us to win the first match against them here and we should have won it."
Zimbabwe have one point in Group D to their name following their last ball tie against Ireland.
Monday's defeat against the West Indies means that only victory against Pakistan will be enough to keep them in the competition.
Even if they achieve that, they would then have to hope that Brian Lara's side defeat Ireland in the last group game to leave second round qualification to be calculated on run rates.
"We were trying for a win (against the West Indies) to put us in a better position to reach the Super Eights, but I thought the guys fought well which was good, so we will have to get it in our next game," said Zimbabwe's 21-year-old skipper Prosper Utseya.
