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History of Pakistan Cricket: 

Pakistan 
Test status granted 1952 
Initially Test match v India at Delhi, October 1952 
Captain Inzamam-ul-Haq 
Coach Bob Woolmer 
Official ICC Test and ODI ranking 3rd (Test), fourth (ODI) 
Test matches 
– this year 329 
3 
Last Test match v South Africa at Cape Town, 10 December 2006 
Wins/misfortunes 
– this year 103/87 
1/2 
Starting 27 February 2007 
The Pakistani cricket group is a national cricket group speaking to Pakistan. It is administrated by the Pakistan Cricket Board. Pakistan is a full individual from the International Cricket Council with Test and one-day universal status. Starting 5 January 2007, Pakistan is positioned third in the ICC Test and fourth place in the ICC ODI Championship 

History 

Taking after the Partition of India in 1947, and the foundation of the different country condition of Pakistan, cricket in the nation grew relentlessly and Pakistan was given Test Match status at a meeting of the Imperial Cricket Conference at Lord's Cricket Ground on 28 July 1952 after proposal by India, which, being the successor condition of the British Raj, did not need to experience such a methodology. 

Pakistani™s first Test match was played in Delhi in October 1952 as a major aspect of a five Test arrangement which India won 2-1. Pakistan made their first voyage through England in 1954 and drew the arrangement 1-1 after a paramount triumph at The Oval in which quick bowler Fazal Mahmood took 12 wickets. Pakistani™s first home Test match was in Dacca in January 1955 against India, after which four more Test matches were played in Bahawalpur, Lahore, Peshawar and Karachi (every one of the five matches in the arrangement were drawn, the first such event in test history). 

The group is viewed as a solid however flighty group. Customarily Pakistani cricket has been loaded with players of awesome ability yet constrained order, making them a group which could play helpful cricket one day and after that perform not exactly commonly one more day. Throughout the years, rivalries in the middle of India and Pakistan have dependably been sincerely charged and accommodate charming challenges, as gifted groups from both sides of the outskirt lift their diversion to new levels to create top notch cricket. Pakistani challenge with India in the Cricket World Cup have seen stuffed stadiums and hoisted climates regardless of where the World Cup has been held. 

Late discussions 

Ball altering allegations re-surfaced with the relinquishment by the Pakistani group of the fourth Test against England at the Oval on 20 August 2006. On the fourth day of the Test, amid England's second innings, the ball started to late invert swing for Umar Gul specifically, bringing about him rejecting Alastair Cook LBW to an inswinging yorker. Four overs later, on looking at the ball, umpire Darrell Hair chose there was confirmation that the ball had been messed around with. He counseled with the other umpire, Billy Doctrove, and punished the Pakistani group for meddling with the state of the ball, honoring five rushes to England. Taking after the playing conditions for that Test, the England batsmen were permitted to pick a substitution ball from a determination of six gave. 

Despite the fact that play proceeded until the end of the evening session, the Pakistani group neglected to return on time toward the begin of the third session in dissent of what they accepted to be a crooked and coldhearted choice. As an aftereffect of the Pakistani group's inability to show up at the field, the umpires honored the test to England, cricket's first and final relinquishment. However the Pakistani group was cleared of any wrongdoing when further transactions saw chief Inzamam-ul-Haq found not liable of ball altering. In any case, the group's dissent prompted him being banned for four recreations on the charge of bringing the session of cricket into unsavoriness. 

Quickly taking after the ball altering contention was the news that its cutting edge pace bowlers Shoaib Akhtar and Mohammad Asif had both tried positive for Nandrolone, the banned anabolic steroid. Despite the fact that both denied any substance misuse, on November 1, 2006 both Akhtar and Asif were banned for a time of 2 years and 1 year separately. Notwithstanding, both bowlers were fruitful in their requests with the prior bans being disavowed, despite the fact that the World Anti-Doping Agency has made a claim in the International Court of Arbitration for Sport over the renouncing of this boycott. 

Competition history 

World Cup ICC Champions Trophy Asia Cup 

• 1975: First Round 

• 1979: Semi Finals 

• 1983: Semi Finals 

• 1987: Semi Finals 

• 1992: Champions 

• 1996: Quarter Finals 

• 1999: Runners Up 

• 2003: First Round • 1998: Quarter Finals 

• 2000: Semi Finals 

• 2002: First Round 

• 2004: Semi Finals 

• 2006: First Round • 1984: Third Place 

• 1986: Runners Up 

• 1988: Third Place 

• 1990/91: Did not partake 

• 1995: Third Place 

• 1997: Third Place 

• 2000: Champions 

• 2004: Third Place 

Australasia Cup Asian Test Championship Commonwealth Games 

• 1986: Champions 

• 1990: Champions 

• 1994: Champions • 1999: Champions 

• 2001/02: Runners Up • 1998: First Round 

Well known minutes 

1986 Australasia Cup 

The 1986 Austral-Asia Cup, played in Sharjah, is recognized as a well known last-ball triumph for Pakistan against most outstanding adversaries India, with Javed Miandad rising as a national legend. 

India batted first and set a focus of 245 runs, leaving Pakistan with an obliged run rate of 4.92 runs every over. Javed Miandad came into bat at number 3, and Pakistan lost wickets at normal interims, prompting what appeared to be a simple Indian triumph. Later reviewing the match, Miandad expressed that his primary center was to lose with respect. With 31 runs required in the last three overs, Miandad hit a series of limits while batting with his group's lower request, until four runs were needed from the last conveyance of the match. Miandad got a leg side full hurl from Chetan Sharma, which he hit for six over the midwicket limit. The shot is still considered as a standout amongst the most memorable crossroads in ODI cricket history. 

1992 Cricket World Cup 

The 1992 Cricket World Cup in Australia & New Zealand denoted Pakistan's first World Cup triumph. It is associated with the unlikely rebound Pakistan made in the wake of losing key players, for example, Waqar Younis and Saeed Anwar, and being driven by a harmed commander in Imran Khan. Pakistan lost 4 of their initial 5 matches and were about dispensed with in the first round of the competition in the wake of being played out for 74 against England, until the match was announced a "no outcome" because of downpour. Commander Imran Khan broadly advised the group to play "as cornered tigers", after which Pakistan won five progressive matches, including, most broadly, the semi-last against hosts New Zealand and the last against England. 

1992 Cricket World Cup Semi Final 

In the wake of winning the hurl, New Zealand decided to bat first and finished with a sum of 262, which was viewed as a decent score in 1992, when run rates were for the most part much lower. Pakistan batted conservatively yet lost wickets at normal interims. With the takeoff of Imran Khan and Saleem Malik in the blink of an eye from there on, Pakistan still obliged 115 runs at a rate of 7.67 every over with veteran Javed Miandad being the main known batsman staying at the wrinkle. A youthful Inzamam ul-Haq, who had recently turned 22 and was not an extraordinary player at the time, blast onto the universal stage with a match-winning 60 off 37 balls. Once Inzamam got out, Pakistan obliged 36 from 30 balls, which wicketkeeper Moin Khan finished with a towering six over long off, took after by the triumphant limit to midwicket. The match is seen as the development of Inzamam onto the worldwide stage, and would later turn into the typical beginning stage of his ascent to turn into Pakistan's top batsman, supplanting Miandad, the player with whom he imparted his notable association. 

Cricket Grounds 

Stadium City Test matches ODI matches 

Jinnah Stadium Sialkot 4 9 

Zafar Ali Stadium Sahiwal 0 2 

Gaddafi Stadium Lahore 38 49 

Ayub National Stadium Quetta 0 2 

National Stadium Karachi 39 32 

Niaz Stadium Hyderabad 5 6 

Jinnah Stadium Gujranwala 1 11 

Ibn-e-Qasim Bagh Stadium Multan 1 6 

Arbab Niaz Stadium Peshawar 6 15 

Iqbal Stadium Faisalabad 24 12 

Pindi Club Ground Rawalpindi 1 2 

Sargodha Stadium Sargodha 0 1 

Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium Rawalpindi 8 21 

Bugti Stadium Quetta 0 1 

Sheikhupura Stadium Sheikhupura 2 1 

Multan Cricket Stadium Multan 5 4 

Notes: Pakistan have a solid record at the National Stadium, Karachi, where they have won 21 of their 39 test matches and lost just 1 test match. 

Skippers 

Pakistan's Test skippers: 

Name Captaincy Period 

Abdul Kardar 1952/53 – 1957/58 

Fazal Mahmood 1958/59 – 1960/61 

Imtiaz Ahmed 1959/60 – 1961/62 

Javed Burki 1962 

Hanif Mohammad 1964/65 – 1967 

Saeed Ahmed 1968/69 

Intikhab Alam 1969/70 – 1974/75 

Majid Khan 1972/73 

Mushtaq Mohammed 1976/77 – 1978/79 

Wasim Bari 1977/78 – 1978 

Asif Iqbal 1979/80 

Javed Miandad 1979/80 – 1992/93 

Imran Khan 1982 – 1991/92 

Zaheer Abbas 1983/84 – 1984/85 

Wasim Akram 1992/93 – 1999/00 

Waqar Younis 1993/94 – 2002/03 

Saleem Malik 1993/94 – 1994/95 

Rameez Raja 1995/96 – 1996/97 

Saeed Anwar 1996/97 – 1999/00 

Aamer Sohail 1997/98 – 1998/99 

Rashid Latif 1997/98 – 2003 

Moin Khan 1998/99 – 2000/01 

Inzamam-ul-Haq* 2000/01 – 2006/07 

Mohammad Yousuf 2003/04 – 2004/05 

Younis Khan 2005 – 2005/06 

* Indicates current skipper. 

Notes: Kardar drove the first Pakistani group to triumph over all the Test playing countries of the 1950s, including notable triumphs over England in England in 1954, and against Australia in Karachi in 1956. Imran Khan drove Pakistan to a World Cup triumph in 1992 in Australia. 

Remarkable Pakistani cricketers: 

Batsmen 

Well known Pakistani batsman; 

• Hanif Moham