Covid-19 provides an opportunity for Pakistan Cricket to pause and reflect. Below I’ll be looking at five of the most concerning stats regarding Pakistan Cricket across various formats that they should be paying most attention to try and improve their numbers in when international cricket resumes.
Pakistan Cricket has experienced some great highs such as winning the Champions Trophy and topping the Test rankings in 2016 and T20I rankings in 2017. It is far from being in absolute turmoil. But these stats below reflect the long term struggles of the side, particularly in white ball cricket.
Pakistan have lost 16 consecutive Test Matches in SENA countries excluding the London venues of Lord’s and Oval since their tour of South Africa in February 2013.
South Africa 2013:
Lost Johannesburg Test 2013
Lost Cape Town Test 2013
Lost Centurion Test 2013
England 2016:
Lost Manchester Test 2016
Lost Edgbaston Test 2016
New Zealand 2016:
Lost Christchurch Test 2016
Lost Hamilton Test 2016
Australia 2016-17:
Lost Brisbane Test 2016
Lost Melbourne Test 2016
Lost Sydney Test 2017
England 2018:
Lost Leeds Test 2018
South Africa 2018-19:
Lost Centurion Test 2018
Lost Cape Town Test 2019
Lost Johannesburg Test 2019
Australia 2019:
Lost Brisbane Test 2019
Lost Adelaide Test 2019
Pakistan have lost 15 of their last 17 ODI series vs England, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa stretching back to the start of 2012.
Lost 4-0 vs England in UAE in 2012
Lost 2-1 vs Australia in UAE in 2012
Lost 3-2 in South Africa in 2013
Lost 4-1 vs South Africa in UAE in 2013
Won 2-1 in South Africa in 2013
Lost 3-0 vs Australia in UAE in 2014
Lost 3-2 vs New Zealand in UAE in 2014
Lost 2-0 vs New Zealand away in 2015
Lost 3-1 vs England in UAE 2015
Lost 2-0 in New Zealand in 2016
Lost 4-1 in England in 2016
Lost 4-1 in Australia in 2017
Lost 5-0 in New Zealand in 2018
Tied 1-1 vs New Zealand in UAE in 2018
Lost 3-2 in South Africa in 2019
Lost 5-0 vs Australia in UAE in 2019
Lost 4-0 in England in 2019
Pakistan have lost 13 of their last 15 games against India in ICC competitions and Asia Cup tournaments from 19th June 2010 when the two sides met in an Asia Cup match in Sri Lanka.
Asia Cup in Sri Lanka on 19th June 2010.
ICC Cricket World Cup in India on 30th March 2011.
Asia Cup in Dhaka on 18th March 2012.
ICC World Twenty20 in Colombo on 30th September 2012.
ICC Champions Trophy in Birmingham on 15th June 2013.
Asia Cup in Dhaka on 2nd March 2014.
ICC World Twenty20 in Dhaka on 21st March 2014.
ICC Cricket World Cup in Adelaide on 15th February 2015.
Asia Cup in Dhaka on 27th February 2016.
ICC World Twenty20 in Kolkata on 19th March 2016.
ICC Champions Trophy in Birmingham on 4th June 2017.
ICC Champions Trophy in London on 18th June 2017.
Asia Cup in Dubai on 19th September 2018.
Asia Cup in Dubai on 23rd September 2018.
ICC Cricket World Cup in Manchester on 16th June 2019.
Pakistan have only made the semi final stages once in the last six ICC tournaments from the 2013 Champions Trophy onwards.
2013 ICC Champions Trophy in England = Failed to make the semi finals.
2014 ICC World Twenty20 in Bangladesh = Failed to make the semi finals.
2015 ICC Cricket World Cup in Australasia = Failed to make the semi finals.
2016 ICC World Twenty20 in India = Failed to make the semi finals.
2017 ICC Champions Trophy in England = Winners.
2019 ICC Cricket World Cup in England = Failed to make the semi finals.
Pakistan have only made the semi finals twice in the last 7 ICC Cricket World Cup competitions since winning the World Cup for the first and only time in their history on 25th March 1992 at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Imran Khan’s final international appearance.
1996 = Quarter Finalists.
1999 = Runners Up.
2003 = First round.
2007 = First round.
2011 = Semi Finalists.
2015 = Quarter Finalists.
2019 = Didn’t make the semi finals in a round-robin format.
Wickets and Runs | Wicketsandrunsdotnet 