PAKISTAN captain Mohammad Yousuf has branded team-mate Salman Butt “selfish”

after being run out by the opener to leave the tourists in a seemingly-hopeless position at the end of day two of the third Test against Australia.

Pakistan’s running between wickets matched their comical efforts in the field as Ponting went on to make 209 after being dropped on zero on day one by teenage paceman Mohammad Aamer and again by Imran Farhat when on 167 as Pakistan’s total number of dropped catches for the series rose to 16.

But it was Butt’s refusal to run in two instances - costing the wickets of Yousuf and Akmal – that had the Pakistan skipper seething after play.

The Yousuf run-out occurred after the Pakistan skipper played a splendid offdrive off Doug Bollinger and, having run two, called for an easily-gettable third run.

But, despite the fact it was Yousuf that was running to the danger end, Butt stood his ground at the non-striker’s end, leaving his captain stranded – as he would also do later when Akmal called for a single off the bowling of Nathan Hauritz.

Yousuf branded Butt “a lazy runner” after play, and said: “We are not playing for self, we are playing for country.

“I am 35 years old, he is 25, why not take three runs?”

Yousuf lingered for seemingly an eternity after the runout as he glared at his partner before trudging from the field.

When asked his thoughts at that moment, the forthright Pakistan skipper replied: “I just stopped there and didn’t say anything but I was very sad because of him.

“He is just 25 years old and he can’t run and that is why I was just standing there.”

“We will try to lift him and play out the whole day tomorrow,”

he said of Butt.

“We are not out of the match still and maybe both players can bat until tomorrow evening.”