It must be hard being a Pakistan cricket fan right now. Those supporters have seen the side suffer 14 defeats in their last 19 Tests after last week's three-day, innings-and-103-run drubbing by England in the series opener at Headingley. The tourists were loose and ineffective with the ball, poor with the bat, and awful in the field - a damaging cocktail.

Ahead of the second game at Lord's from Thursday - live on Sky Sports Cricket (10am on air, 11am first ball) - Osman Samiuddin, a senior editor at Cricinfo and Pakistan cricket expert, joined Michael Atherton and Nasser Hussain on the Sky Sports Cricket Podcast. Samiuddin explained where he thinks things have gone wrong for Pakistan as cricket in the country reaches an "alarm bells stage" with fans fed up at how the game is being run. Too much change with domestic structure remains a key issue.

Whichever structure you choose - there has been a great battle in Pakistan over the last 50 years, really, about whether you should have departmental or regional sides - I would pick one and stick with it, say this structure stays for the next 10, 12 years. They have changed structure almost every single season since the first first-class season in 1953. There has been no stability.

We cut from 16 to six teams in 2019-20, then expanded to 16 teams with four first-class tournaments and three white-ball tournaments. When they cut down in 2019, they literally lost half their first-class cricketer pool. There were stories of players taking up driving taxis as, overnight, they didn't have a career.

That drastic change every season has impacted the quality of domestic cricket, which is where you get your talent from. Domestic tournaments used to be played across 16 first-class grounds. For the last few years, they have been at about four or five.

How are batters like Abdullah Shafique and Imam-ul-Haq supposed to work out how to play in different conditions playing at four grounds? Issues with administration and management of players are also self-inflicted. Since 2021, we have had four chairmen - Ramiz Raja, Najam Sethi, Zaka Ashraf and now Mohsin Naqvi - with very different views and very different levels of involvement in the game. The current chairman is also the interior minister of the country.

Pakistan has a lot of interior-minister issues on any given day so he is fairly busy with his day job. You wonder how much time he has for cricket? Shaheen Shah Afridi, Babar Azam, Abdullah Shafique, Naseem Shah... So many of these players have burst onto the scene and then regressed.

There is a feeling that golden talents have not hit the heights we are expecting them to hit and maybe never will. There is only one reason, really, for that regression and that is how the PCB manages their car...