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The [[1992 Cricket World Cup]] in [[Australia]] & [[New Zealand]] marked Pakistan's first World Cup victory. It is remembered for the improbable comeback Pakistan made after losing key players such as [[Waqar Younis]] and [[Saeed Anwar]], and being led by an injured captain in [[Imran Khan]]. Pakistan lost 4 of their first 5 matches and were nearly eliminated in the first round of the tournament after being bowled out for 74 against England, until the match was declared a "no result" due to rain. Captain Imran Khan famously told the team to play "as cornered tigers", after which Pakistan won five successive matches, including, most famously, the semi-final against hosts New Zealand and the final against England.
The [[1992 Cricket World Cup]] in [[Australia]] & [[New Zealand]] marked Pakistan's first World Cup victory. It is remembered for the improbable comeback Pakistan made after losing key players such as [[Waqar Younis]] and [[Saeed Anwar]], and being led by an injured captain in [[Imran Khan]]. Pakistan lost 4 of their first 5 matches and were nearly eliminated in the first round of the tournament after being bowled out for 74 against England, until the match was declared a "no result" due to rain. Captain Imran Khan famously told the team to play "as cornered tigers", after which Pakistan won five successive matches, including, most famously, the semi-final against hosts New Zealand and the final against England.


====1992 World Cup Semi-final====
===1992 World Cup Semi-final===
After winning the toss, New Zealand chose to bat first and ended with a total of 262, which was considered a very good score in 1992, when run rates were generally much lower. 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 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 from 30 balls, which wicketkeeper [[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, and would later become the symbolic starting point of his rise to become Pakistan's top batsman, replacing Miandad, the player with whom he shared his historic partnership.
After winning the toss, New Zealand chose to bat first and ended with a total of 262, which was considered a very good score in 1992, when run rates were generally much lower. 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 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 from 30 balls, which wicketkeeper [[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, and would later become the symbolic starting point of his rise to become Pakistan's top batsman, replacing Miandad, the player with whom he shared his historic partnership.

===2006 4th Test in England===
With [[English cricket team|England]] winning the four-test series 2-0, the final test at [[The Oval]] was ended abruptly at 5pm on the Sunday after Pakistan refused to take the field after the tea break. The had taken umbridge at being penalised by umpire [[Darrell Hair]] for alleged [[ball tampering]]. [[English cricket team|England]] had been awarded five penalty 'extra' runs and allowed to select a replacement ball. Hare and his co-umpire [[Billy Doctrove]] had decided the ball had been altered artificially after it was seen to be achieving premature [[reverse swing]] and half the ball appeared 'scuffed'. After the Pakistan fielders refused to return after the tea-break, Hair removed the bails; the effect being Pakistan forfeiting the test match (having been in a position where a conventional England win seemed highly improbable), making the provision series result 3-0 to [[English cricket team|England]]. It was not the first time that Pakistan had had issues with [[Darrell Hair]]'s umpiring, having previously made a complaint to the ICC about his officiating.


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Revision as of 16:03, 20 August 2006

Pakistan
As of 30 July 2006

The Pakistani cricket team is a national cricket team representing Pakistan. It is administrated by the Pakistan Cricket Board. Pakistan is a full member of the International Cricket Council with Test and one-day international status. As of 12 July 2006, Pakistan is ranked second in the ICC Test Championship[1] and third in the ICC ODI Championship[2]

History

Following the Partition of India in 1947, and the establishment of the separate nation state of Pakistan, cricket in the country developed steadily and Pakistan was given Test Match status at a meeting of the Imperial Cricket Conference at Lord's Cricket Ground on 28 July 1952. Pakistan’s first Test match was played in Delhi in October 1952 as part of a five Test series which India won 2-1. Pakistan made their first tour of England in 1954 and drew the series 1-1 after a memorable victory at The Oval in which fast bowler Fazal Mahmood took 12 wickets. Pakistan’s first home Test match was in Dacca in East Pakistan (present-day Bangladesh) in January 1955 against India, after which four more Test matches were played in Bahawalpur, Lahore, Peshawar and Karachi (all five matches in the series were drawn).

The team is considered one of the best teams in international cricket, with top rankings in both Test and One-day International matches. Traditionally Pakistani cricket has been filled with players of outrageous talent but limited discipline, making them a team which could play inspirational cricket one day and then perform less than ordinarily another day. Over the years, competitions between India and Pakistan have always been emotionally charged and provide for intriguing contests, as talented teams from both sides of the border elevate their game to new levels to produce high-quality cricket.

Legends of Pakistan Cricket


The Pakistan Cricket Hall of Fame can be found at http://www.pakistancricketzone.com/forumdisplay.php?f=30

Tournament history

World Cup

ICC Champions Trophy

ICC Knockout

  • 1998: Quarter Finals
  • 2000: Semi Finals

Sharjah Cup

  • 1987: Finals, 2nd place
  • 1989: Won
  • 1990: Won
  • 1992: Won
  • 1997: Finals, 2nd place
  • 1999: Won
  • 2002: Won
  • 2003: Won

Commonwealth Games

Asian Test Championship

  • 1999: Won
  • 2001/02: Finals, 2nd place

Asia Cup

  • 1984: 3rd place
  • 1986: Finals, 2nd place
  • 1988: 3rd place
  • 1990/91: Did not participate
  • 1995: 3rd place
  • 1997: 3rd place
  • 2000: Won
  • 2004: 3rd place

Austral-Asia Cup

  • 1986: Won
  • 1990: Won
  • 1994: Won

Records

Pakistan has produced many excellent bowlers such as Fazal Mahmood, Imran Khan, Wasim Akram, Waqar Younis, and Shoaib Akhtar. Pakistan's bowlers are known for developing and perfecting the art of reverse swing bowling, said to be invented by Sarfaraz Nawaz, to a high degree of proficiency.

Pakistan rose to prominence and began to be considered very seriously under the captaincy of Imran Khan who led the 1992 World Cup winning team.

Some of Pakistan's most memorable matches have those played against the neighboring nation of India. Although it has been very difficult to predict which team will win on a given day, Pakistan has won 64 of the 108 ODIs played between the countries, and 12 Test match encounters to India's 8.

During the tour of India in 1997, the Pakistan team consistently outperformed the opposing side on their home turf. Batsman Saeed Anwar put on a brilliant batting performance, scoring a world record 194 in a single ODI against their arch-rivals.

Renowned Pakistani cricketers include Hafeez Kardar, Hanif Mohammad, Mushtaq Mohammad, Sadiq Mohammad, Asif Iqbal, Mohsin Khan, Mudassar Nazar, Wasim Bari, Imran Khan, Javed Miandad, Wasim Akram, Waqar Younis, Saeed Anwar, Aamer Sohail, Inzamam-ul-Haq, Salim Malik, Abdul Qadir and Shoaib Akhtar.

Famous moments

1986 Austral-Asia Cup

The 1986 Austral-Asia Cup, played in Sharjah, is remembered as a famous last-ball victory for Pakistan against arch-rivals India, with Javed Miandad emerging as a national hero.

India batted first and set a target of 245 runs, leaving Pakistan with a required run rate of 4.92 runs per over. Javed Miandad came in to bat at number 3, and Pakistan lost wickets at regular intervals, leading to what looked to be an easy Indian victory. Later recalling the match, Miandad stated that his main focus was to lose with dignity. With 31 runs needed in the last three overs, Miandad hit a string of boundaries while batting with his team's lower order, until four runs were required from the last delivery of the match. Miandad received a leg side full toss from Chetan Sharma, which he hit for six over the midwicket boundary. The shot is still considered as one of the most historic moments in ODI cricket history, and widely considered the beginning of a long period of Pakistani dominance over India for the next several years.

1992 Cricket World Cup

The 1992 Cricket World Cup in Australia & New Zealand marked Pakistan's first World Cup victory. It is remembered for the improbable comeback Pakistan made after losing key players such as Waqar Younis and Saeed Anwar, and being led by an injured captain in Imran Khan. Pakistan lost 4 of their first 5 matches and were nearly eliminated in the first round of the tournament after being bowled out for 74 against England, until the match was declared a "no result" due to rain. Captain Imran Khan famously told the team to play "as cornered tigers", after which Pakistan won five successive matches, including, most famously, the semi-final against hosts New Zealand and the final against England.

1992 World Cup Semi-final

After winning the toss, New Zealand chose to bat first and ended with a total of 262, which was considered a very good score in 1992, when run rates were generally much lower. 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 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 from 30 balls, which wicketkeeper 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, and would later become the symbolic starting point of his rise to become Pakistan's top batsman, replacing Miandad, the player with whom he shared his historic partnership.

2006 4th Test in England

With England winning the four-test series 2-0, the final test at The Oval was ended abruptly at 5pm on the Sunday after Pakistan refused to take the field after the tea break. The had taken umbridge at being penalised by umpire Darrell Hair for alleged ball tampering. England had been awarded five penalty 'extra' runs and allowed to select a replacement ball. Hare and his co-umpire Billy Doctrove had decided the ball had been altered artificially after it was seen to be achieving premature reverse swing and half the ball appeared 'scuffed'. After the Pakistan fielders refused to return after the tea-break, Hair removed the bails; the effect being Pakistan forfeiting the test match (having been in a position where a conventional England win seemed highly improbable), making the provision series result 3-0 to England. It was not the first time that Pakistan had had issues with Darrell Hair's umpiring, having previously made a complaint to the ICC about his officiating.

Cricket Grounds

  • Jinnah Stadium, Sialkot (not active)
  • Zafar Ali Stadium, Sahiwal (not active)
  • Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore (active)
  • Ayub National Stadium, Quetta (not active)
  • National Stadium, Karachi (active)
  • Niaz Stadium, Hyderabad, Sind (not active)
  • Jinnah Stadium, Gujranwala (not active)
  • Ibn-e-Qasim Bagh Stadium, Multan (not active)
  • Arbab Niaz Stadium, Peshawar (active)
  • Iqbal Stadium, Faisalabad (active)
  • Pindi Club Ground, Rawalpindi (not active)
  • Sargodha Stadium (not active)
  • Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium (active)
  • Bugti Stadium, Quetta (not active)
  • Sheikhupura Stadium (not active)
  • Multan Cricket Stadium (active)

Notable Pakistan cricketers

Captains

Notes: Kardar led the first Pakistani team to victory over all the Test playing nations of the 1950s, including historic victories over England in England in 1954, and against Australia in Karachi in 1956. Imran Khan led Pakistan to a World Cup victory in 1992 in Australia.

Batsmen

Notes: Hanif Mohammad scored 337 against the West Indies in 1958, the first triple hundred by an Asian cricketer. This is also the longest innings by any batsman in terms of time spent at the wicket. Saeed Anwar holds the record for scoring 194, the highest ODI innings, scored against the Indian cricket team in Chennai in 1997. Shahid Afridi holds the record for the fastest ODI century reaching the milestone off just 37 balls and also equalled the second fastest hundred by scoring a century off 45 balls.

Fast bowlers

Notes: Wasim Akram has taken 502 ODI wickets, the highest by any bowler in ODI cricket. Shoaib Akhtar is the fastest bowler in the world, regularly bowling at around 92-95 Miles/H, and also has the record of the fastest delivery ever recorded, clocking at 100.2 Miles/H.

Reverse Swing

Reverse swing happens when the ball is about 40 overs old (although some bowlers have got the bowl to reverse swing after 15 overs) and has one side roughed up and the other side shiny. The grip and the release for reverse swing is similar to that of conventional swing. When the ball conventionally swings, the batsman expects the ball to swing towards the rough side. But when the ball reverse swings, it actually swings towards side where the shiny side is held, which can leave a batsman devastated.

The art of reverse swing was first discovered by Sarfraz Nawaz in the 1970s. He mastered this art and then passed it on to another Pakistani bowler, Imran Khan. Imran Khan mastered reverse swing and the evidence of reverse swing by Imran Khan was seen in 1983 in a test match against India at Karachi where he took 5 wickets in 25 balls. Imran Khan subsequently passed this skill on to Waqar Younis and Wasim Akram who made the most use of it. In 1992, when Pakistan toured England, it left England’s batsmen devastated as they had no answer to the reverse swing and they hadn’t heard about it before. Pakistan ended up winning the series 2-1.

The series was a controversial one as the Pakistani team got accused of ball tampering, particularly by the English media. They couldn’t understand how a ball that old could swing that much. But the English media got their answer as this art expanded around the cricket world and more and more bowlers started to master reverse swing. English bowlers themselves used this as one of the weapons to win The Ashes series 2-1 against Australia in 2005. In the end, it was concluded that the Pakistani bowlers were simply ahead of their time.

Spin bowlers

Notes: Abdul Qadir is considered the reviver of the art of leg-spin bowling, and Saqlain Mushtaq is regarded as one of the best off-spin bowlers in cricket history, credited with inventing the delivery now known as the doosra. Danish Kaneria is only the second Hindu to play Test cricket for Pakistan.

All rounders

Current Team

The current Pakistani team includes: Inzamam-ul-Haq (Captain), Younis Khan (Vice Captain), Salman Butt, Kamran Akmal (wicketkeeper), Imran Farhat, Mohammad Yousuf, Shahid Afridi, Faisal Iqbal, Shoaib Malik, Abdul Razzaq, Arshad Khan, Mohammad Asif, Asim Kamal, Mohammad Sami, Rana Naved-ul-Hasan, Shoaib Akhtar, Danish Kaneria, and Umer Gul.

Trivia

  • Abdul Jalil aka Chacha cricket (photo) has been following the team since 1969. The PCB pays him 10,000 Pakistani rupees per month to follow the team, and he himself has a number of his own followers.

See also

References

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  1. ^ "ICC - Test Cricket". ICC. http://www.icc-cricket.com. Retrieved July 12. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help); External link in |publisher= (help); Unknown parameter |accessyear= ignored (|access-date= suggested) (help)
  2. ^ "ICC - One-Day International Cricket". ICC. http://www.icc-cricket.com. Retrieved July 12. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help); External link in |publisher= (help); Unknown parameter |accessyear= ignored (|access-date= suggested) (help)
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