It is not a population issue. Theoretically, Pakistan should be the second strongest cricket nation because we have the largest talent pool after India.
However, the problem is that our mentally is rotten to the core. We don’t understand cricket, we try to play a terrible brand of cricket, we have the wrong idea of how to construct a winning team, we have the wrong idea of what we need to develop a strong team, and our analysis are awful.
You can count on one hand the number of players and ex-players who actually understand the game.
In a nutshell, we are completely clueless.