1975?
1 WC and runner up in 1
1 WT20 and runner up in 1
1 CT
Many other Tournaments victories and away Test series wins especially against 'England'
Number 1 Ranking in Tests/ODI/T20
Being the only force against Windies when others had no idea what to do.
Starting from 1950s I guess we achieved far more in cricket thn England with a history of centuries can ever dream...
Don't forget to let us know when 'fav' England get out of their Ashes bubble and get close to what we achieved. For starter they need to win this WC because this is the 5th time they are hosting a WC so now they should at least win one.
A completely irrelevant post. We are not comparing the achievements of Pakistan and England over the course of history. Yes historically, Pakistan has achieved more than England especially in Limited Overs.
The topic on hand is the so-called unpredictability of Pakistan, which is a myth that I have dispelled over and over again in the last few days, and I am more than happy to do it again.
A team that is unpredictable doesn’t lose every single Test match in Australia for 23 years and counting.
A team that is unpredictable doesn’t win 1 World Cup in 11 attempts and counting.
A team that is unpredictable doesn’t lose over 80% of its ODI series in the last 13 odd years.
A team that is unpredictable doesn’t lose to India in every World Cup game.
A team that is unpredictable doesn’t lose 12 matches in a row.
I can give many, many examples of how Pakistan has been predictably poor.
What does unpredictability even mean? It is nothing but a fancy word for inconsistency, and there is nothing great about being inconsistent.
Pakistan is a mid-table team and not good enough to be among the top 3 teams in the world. However, it is capable of beating the top teams on rare occasions, and that is not something to be proud of.
Pakistan is not more unpredictable than a team like Sri Lanka or West Indies (excluding their golden period). Sri Lanka have been terrible for years now, but they still won a Test series in South Africa earlier this year.
Had Pakistan won their series, our fans would be praising them for being unpredictable. Similarly, in spite of struggling in this millennium and reaching almost minnow status, West Indies have won more trophies than any team after Australia. Do you see their fans calling them unpredictable and cornered tiger etc.?
Pakistani fans are the only fans in cricket, or perhaps in sport, that celebrate inconsistency.
Rather than becoming an unbeatable
team and winning 13 matches in a row, Pakistani fans would rather have their team lose 12 matches and then produce a shock win so that they can do bhangra on how unpredictable they are, and how Pakistan cricket always surprises you.
Pakistan will never be a top, elite team if they don’t get out of this rubbish mentality - we need overcome this cliches of unpredictability and cornered tigers and strive for consistency.
We should be predictability good and we should not get cornered in the first place. Unfortunately, this rotten mentality has infected not only the fans but also the players as well.
On the eve of the World Cup, Sarfaraz claimed that it is good that Pakistan is unpredictable. That is a complete nonsense statement - unpredictability is never good, and to see the national captain make a statement like that exposes our mentality.
As a nation, we need to collectively realize that unpredictability is not something to be proud of. We talk about it as if it is a great quality of Pakistan cricket, but it is not. It is actually a weakness.
Unless and until we change our mentality and stop celebrating inconsistency, we can never hope to becoming the best team in the world.
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