History
Pakistan has played 446 Test matches, winning 146, losing 136 and drawing 164.[18] Pakistan was given Test status on 28 July 1952 and made its Test debut against India at Feroz Shah Kotla Ground, Delhi in October 1952, with India winning by an innings and 70 runs.[19]
The team has played 945 ODIs, winning 498, losing 418, tying 9 with 20 ending in no-result.[20] Pakistan was the 1992 World Cup champion, and was the runner-up in the 1999 tournament. Pakistan, in conjunction with other countries in South Asia, has hosted the 1987 and 1996 World Cups, with the 1996 final being hosted at Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore.
The team has also played 215 Twenty20 Internationals, winning 131, losing 76 and tying 3. Pakistan won the 2009 ICC Men’s T20 World Cup and were runners-up in the 2007 and 2022 editions.
Pakistan has the distinct achievement of having won each of the major ICC international cricket tournaments: ICC Cricket World Cup (1992), ICC T20 World Cup (2009) and ICC Champions Trophy (2017); as well as becoming the fourth team to lift the mace of the ICC Test Championship in 2016.
The increase in terrorism as a result of the war on terror led to a stagnation of foreign teams touring Pakistan. Following the 2009 attack on the Sri Lanka national cricket team, no Test cricket was played in the country until 2019.[24] Between 2009 and 2016, their home matches have been mostly held in the United Arab Emirates. However, due to a decrease in terrorism in Pakistan over the past few years, as well as an increase in security, many teams have toured Pakistan since 2015.[26] These teams include Zimbabwe, Sri Lanka, West Indies, Bangladesh, South Africa, Australia, England and an ICC World XI team. In addition, the Pakistan Super League has seen games hosted in Pakistan.
At the 1992 World Cup Semi-final, having won the toss, New Zealand chose to bat first and ended with a total of 262 runs. Pakistan batted conservatively yet lost wickets at regular intervals. With the departure of Imran Khan and Saleem Malik shortly thereafter, Pakistan still required 115 runs at a rate of 7.67 runs per over with veteran Javed Miandad being the only known batsman remaining at the crease. A young Inzamam-ul-Haq, who had just turned 22 and was not a well-known player at the time, burst onto the international stage with a match-winning 60 off 37 balls. Once Inzamam got out, Pakistan required 36 runs from 30 balls, which wicket-keeper Moin Khan ended with a towering six over long off, followed by the winning boundary to midwicket. The match is seen as the emergence of Inzamam onto the international stage.
The 1992 Cricket World Cup in Australia and New Zealand marked Pakistan’s first World Cup victory. It is remembered for the comeback Pakistan made after losing key players such as Waqar Younis and Saeed Anwar and being led by an injured captain Imran Khan. Pakistan lost 3 of their first 5 matches and were nearly eliminated in the first round of the tournament after being bowled out for 74 runs against England, until the match was declared as a “no result” due to rain. Imran Khan told the team to play like “cornered tigers”, after which Pakistan won five successive matches, including the semi-final against hosts New Zealand and the final against England.
Stars of Cricket
SHANE WARNE
Shane Keith Warne was an Australian international cricketer, whose career ran from
1991 to 2007.Warne was born in Upper Ferntree Gully, Victoria, a suburb of Melbourne, on 13 September 1969.
Warne played as a right-arm leg spin bowler and a right-handed batsman for Victoria, Hampshire and
Australia. He has honoured of the greatest bowlers in the history of the sport. He made 145 Test appearances, taking 708 wickets, and set the record for the most wickets taken by any bowler in Test cricket. His record held until 2007.
Brigitte was his mother name and his father name was Keith Warne. He attended Hampton High School from Grades 7–9 before being offered a sports scholarship to attend Mentone Grammar, where he spent his final three years of school.
Warne was a useful lower-order batsman who scored more than 3,000 Test runs, with a highest score of 99. He retired from international cricket at the end of Australia's 2006–07 Ashes series victory over England.
In the first four seasons of the Indian Premier League, Warne was a player-coach for Rajasthan Royals
and also captained the team. During his career, Warne was involved in off-field scandals; his censures included a ban from cricket for testing positive for a prohibited substance, and charges of sexual indiscretions and bringing the game into disrepute.
Warne revolutionised cricket thinking with his mastery of leg spin, then consider as a dying art. After retirement,
he regularly worked as a cricket commentator and also work for for charities. He also affirming many commercial products.
In recognition of his skill, a statue of Warne bowling was placed outside the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG),
Where he was also honoured with a state memorial service, as well as having a grandstand named in his honour.
Honours
Test Matches
1st : Most runs in career without a hundred(3154).
Most wickets in a calendar year(96).
2nd: 10 wickets in a match in career.
Most wickets taken stumped(36).
Fastest to 700 wickets.
3rd: Player of match award 17 times.
Most bowls bowled in a career(40705).
Most runs conceded in a career(17995).
5th : Most ducks in a career(34).
King of spin bowling.
IMRAN KHAN
Imran Ahmed Khan Niazi was born on 05-october-1952. He is a Pakistani politician and former Cricketer.
He is the captain of Pakistani team who served as the 22nd Prime Minister of Pakistan from August 2018 to until April 2022.
When he was ousted through
a no-confidence in the National Assembly. He is the founder and chairman of a most popular party of Pakistan name Pakistan-Tehreek-e-Insaf(PTI).
He began his international cricket career at age of 18 in 1971.He did his test debut in series against England.
Imran Khan played until 1992 served as the team's captain intermittently between 1982-1992.Pakistan won world cup during his captaincy and till today it is the Pakistan's first biggest victory.
. He is considered as one of cricket's greatest all-rounders.
He scored 3,807 runs and took 362 wickets in Test cricket and was inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame. Khan founded cancer hospitals in Lahore and Peshawar and the third one in Karachi under construction and Namal College in Mianwali, prior to entering politics.
Khan graduated from Keble College and from University of Oxford from England in 1975.
He make political party PTI in 1996. Khan won a seat in the National Assembly in the 2002 general election, serving as an
opposition member from Mianwali until 2007. PTI boycotted the 2008 general election and became the second-largest party
by popular vote in the 2013 general election. In the 2018 general election, running on a populist platform,
PTI became the largest party in the National Assembly, and formed a coalition government with independents with Khan
as Prime Minister.
HONOURS
Test Matches:
4th : Most player of series(8).
Most consecutive ten-wickets-in-a-match.
2nd: Best figures in an innings by a captain(8).
9th: Most wickets taken bowled(96).
A hundred and five wickets in innings.
Most runs in an innings(135).
One Day:
9th : Winning all toss in a series.
1st : Best figures in an innings when on the losing side.
1000 runs and 100 wickets.
100 runs and 10 wickets in match.
100 and 5 wickets in an innings.
32nd most sixes in career (55).
King IMRAN KHAN Quotes:
"Talent or intelligence doesn’t matter, Its your dreams that will decide how big a person you will become"
"Leaders lead people , Leader does not follow public opinion"
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