Was the mid-90s Pakistan team weakest at home?

[AlizeeFan]

From 1982 to 1994, Pakistan didn't lose a series at home. They played 16 test series, won 12 and drawn 4.

You can extend it to 1973, played 23 test series, lost 1, won 15 and drawn 7.

From 1995 to 2001, was the worst phase. Played 11 series at home, lost 7 and won 3 and drawn 1.

From 2002 to 2007, played 11 series, won 7, lost 3 and drawn 1.

From 2008 to 2017, played 10, won 5 and drawn 5. Won't be winning this series either.

From being absolutely unbeatable at home, suddenly they started losing everything at home.

Out of those 3 series wins, 1 was against Bangladesh.

Once they started losing matches, their record was like 7 wins in 25 tests with 9 losses.

 

[Nikhil_cric]

Yeah they lost to SL twice, OZ,SAF,ZIM and England as well.

 

[AlizeeFan]

Yeah they lost to SL twice, OZ,SAF,ZIM and England as well.

That too when some believe that their 90s team was strongest.

 

[Nikhil_cric]

That too when some believe that their 90s team was strongest.

Their 90's team had good away results. They beat England away in 96, Drew with SAF away and beat SL away as well. But at home their record was dubious. They even drew against a very weak NZ side in 96/97. Very inconsistent team.

 

[ToeCrusher2]

That too when some believe that their 90s team was strongest.

Pak's Odi team of the 90s was their strongest side and not the test side of the 90s

 

[Markhor]

I've said this countless times - the Pakistan Test team between 1982-1994 was our best ever NOT the mid to late 1990s team which gets overly romanticised.

I watched us in that period and we were a shambles in Tests. Constant shuffling of players and captains, batting collapses, kack of discipline, the spectre of matchfixing and some extremely poor results.

We lost twice to Sri Lanka (1995 and 2000), Zimbabwe, England, South Africa, Australia and drew with a fairly weak New Zealand. That is not a team worthy of all this hype and hyperbole that continues to this day.

 

[Adil_94]

mid to late 90s team was arguably the most talented Pakistani XI Anwar Inzi Mushy Saqi Wasim Waqar Akhtar emergence of Razzaq Mahmood as ARs. But the team was torn apart by factionalism in fighting and players refusing to play at the top level due these reasons as well as fixing that dogged the team.

Its coz of the ODI performances in the 90s and the domination over India in ODIs the format most popular with the casual fan that made the mid to late 90s seem like a golden generation for Pakistan.

 

[Savak]

If the 90's team had modern professionalism and access to modern nutrition, training methods, would have been pulverizers.

 

[Gabbar Singh]

There was so much shady stuff going on in the 90s (both within Pakistani cricket and elsewhere). I suspect some of the loses back then were down to non cricketing reasons as opposed to form or talent.