History of cricket in Pakistan

History of cricket in Pakistan

The cricket team of Pakistan appeared for the first time in the cricket scene in the year 1952 in a test match. History of Cricket in Pakistan has evolved to one of the victorious cricket teams in the present world.

After the India and Pakistan division in 1947, the people of Pakistan established their own nation and started encouraging the game of cricket in the early stages of development. Test cricket match was played by Pakistan which took place at the conference of the ICC Conference in Lord’s Ground as in 1952, 28^th of July 1952.

Pakistan played its first ever Test series in Delhi, India as in October 1952. There were 5 series of test match out of which 2-1 were the points achieved by India. Following which, our cricket team made their former tour to England in the year 1954 and the series consisted of a draw result ending at 1-1 following an unforgettable success in ‘The Oval’.  Mr. Fazal Mahmood beautifully took a total of 12 wickets. Then Pakistan took part in its first ever home Test series which took place at Dacca in 1955, January vs. India, after which four more Test matches were played in Peshawar, Karachi, Lahore and Bahawalpur, and coincidently those matches of the same series ended as a draw.

History of Tournaments

(World Cup)

Year 1975: 1^st round

Year ‘79: Semi-finals

Year ‘83: Semi-finals

Year ‘87: Semi-finals

Year ‘92: Champions series

Year ‘96: Quarter-finals

Year ‘99: Runners-up

Year ‘03: 1st round

Year ‘07: 1st round

Year ‘11: Semi-finals

(Champions trophy)

Year ‘98: Quarter-finals

2000 year: Semi-finals

Year ‘02: 1st round

Year ‘04: Semi-finals

Year ‘06: 1st round

(Asia Cup)

Year ‘84: 3rd Place

Year ‘86: Runners-up

Year ‘88: 3rd Place

Year ‘90-91: Pakistan did not took part in this series

Year ‘95: 3rd Place

Year ‘97: 3rd Place

2000 Year: Champions series

Year ‘04: 3rd Place

Year ‘08: 3rd Place

Pakistan’s Test captains:

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 captain.

Notes: Kardar led the first Pakistani team to victory over all the Test playing nations of the 1950s, including historic victories over England in England in 1954, and against Australia in Karachi in 1956. Imran Khan led Pakistan to a World Cup victory in 1992 in Australia.
Notable Pakistani cricketers:
Batsmen
Famous Pakistani batsman;

• Hanif Mohammad
• Mushtaq Mohammad
• Saeed Ahmed
• Zaheer Abbas
• Asif Iqbal
• Majid Khan
• Sadiq Mohammad
• Javed Miandad
• Mudassar Nazar
• Shoaib Mohammad
• Mohsin Khan
• Inzamam-Ul-Haq
• Aamer Sohail
• Saeed Anwar
• Saleem Malik
• Ijaz Ahmed
• Mohammad Yousuf
• Younis Khan
Batting records

• Hanif Mohammad scored 337 against the West Indies in 1958, the first triple hundred by an Asian cricketer, and at the time the longest innings by any batsman in terms of time spent at the wicket.
• Hanif also held the record for the highest individual first class innings for just over 35 years, 499 runs, until Brian Lara scored 501 for Warwickshire in 1994.
• Saeed Anwar holds the record for scoring the highest ODI innings against the Indian cricket team (194) at Chennai in 1997.
• Mohammad Yousuf holds the record for the most Test match runs in a calendar year (1788), the most centuries in a calendar year (nine) and the most centuries in successive tests (six centuries in five successive tests).
Fast bowlers
Famous Pakistani fast bowlers;

• Imran Khan
• Wasim Akram
• Aaqib Javed
• Waqar Younis
• Fazal Mahmood
• Sarfraz Nawaz
• Shoaib Akhtar
• Mohammad Sami
• Rana Naved-ul-Hasan
• Umar Gul
• Mohammad Asif

Bowling records:

• Wasim Akram has taken 502 ODI wickets, the most in ODI cricket.
• Shoaib Akhtar holds the record for the fastest delivery recorded, clocked at 100.2 Miles/H.

Spin Bowlers
Famous Pakistani spin bowlers;

• Intikhab Alam
• Iqbal Qasim
• Abdul Qadir
• Mushtaq Ahmed
• Saqlain Mushtaq
• Danish Kaneria
• Tauseef Ahmed
• Shahid Afridi
Notes:
• Saqlain Mushtaq is credited with inventing the delivery now known as the doosra, and is regarded as one of the best off-spin bowlers in cricket history

All rounders
Well known Pakistani all-rounders
• Imran Khan
• Aamer Sohail
• Moin Khan
• Abdul Razzaq
• Shahid Afridi
• Kamran Akmal
• Shoaib Malik
• Wasim Akram
• Azhar Mahmood

Wicket-keepers

Kamran Akmal RHB – –
Zulqarnain Haider RHB – –
Opening batsmen
Mohammad Hafeez RHB Right-arm offbreak –
Imran Farhat LHB Legbreak –
Imran Nazir RHB Legbreak –
Salman Butt LHB Right-arm offbreak –
Yasir Hameed RHB Right-arm offbreak –
Taufeeq Umar LHB Right-arm offbreak –
Specialist middle-order batsmen
Mohammad Yousuf RHB – –
Faisal Iqbal RHB Right-arm medium –
Asim Kamal LHB – –
Hasan Raza RHB Right-arm offbreak –

All-rounders

Abdul Razzaq RHB Right-arm fast-medium –
Shahid Afridi RHB Right-arm medium, Legbreak googly –
Shoaib Malik RHB Right-arm offbreak –
Azhar Mahmood RHB Right-arm fast-medium Surrey
Yasir Arafat RHB Right-arm medium –

Fast Bowlers

Shoaib Akhtar RHB Right-arm fast –
Mohammad Sami RHB Right-arm fast –
Mohammad Asif LHB Right-arm fast-medium Leicestershire
Umar Gul RHB Right-arm fast-medium Gloucestershire
Rana Naved-ul-Hasan RHB Right-arm medium-fast Sussex
Shahid Nazir RHB Right-arm fast-medium –
Shabbir Ahmed RHB Right-arm fast-medium –
Ifthikar Anjum RHB Right-arm medium –
Spin Bowlers
Danish Kaneria RHB Legbreak Essex
Abdur Rehman LHB Slow left-arm orthodox –
The team’s coach is currently Bob Woolmer, who succeded Javed Miandad.

Records:

         Imtiaz Ahmad was the first wicket keeper batsman to score a double century.

·         Wasim Bari was the first Wicket keeper who took 7 catches behind the stumps in an innings. This match was played at Auckland, capital of New Zealand. Only three wicket keepers have taken seven catches in an innings in history.

·         Pakistani team holds the record of maximum difference in scored runs in two innings of a test match. In 1957-58 Pakistan made only 106 runs against West Indies in Bridge Town. But they played very well in the second innings and made 657 runs for the loss of 8 wickets. This was the historical match in which Hanif Muhammad had scored 337 runs.

·         Pakistani Team is also holding the world record for giving the most extra runs in an innings. They conceded 68 extra runs in 1976-77 playing against West Indies in Bridge Town. Pakistanis updated that record against the same team at the same stadium after 11 year. This time they gave 71 extra runs out of which 21 were bye, 8 were leg bye, 40 wides and 38 No-balls.

·         Muddasar Nazar, a famous former batsman has record of making the slowest century of the history. He occupied the crease for almost 557 minutes to score a century against England at Lahore.

·         Also Muddasar Nazar was the first batsman to get run-out on 199 runs. It happened in Faisalabad in 1984-85.

·         Majid Khan was the first of those four batsmen who have scored their century before lunch time on the first day. He made 108 runs before lunch time against New Zealand in 1976-77

·         Javed Miandad is the only batsman in the history of cricket who has scored a century in his 50th and 100 test match.

·         Hassan Raza is the youngest player to play a test match in the history of cricket. He was 14 years and 227 days old on his debut. Before him, this record was associated with Former Skipper Mushtaq Muhammad of Pakistan. At debut his age was 15 years and 124 days.

·         In 1997-98 All rounder Azhar Mahmood and Mushtaq Ahmad made 151 runs in 10th wicket partnership. They just equlized the past record but could not break that.

·         In above mentioned match Azhar Mahmood was on his debut with another player Ali Naqvi and they both scored centuries on debut. This was the first time that two new-comers had scored centuries in their first matches.

·         Inzamam-ul-Haq has made the highest runs (184) in his 100th test match. He broken the previous record of 149 runs held by Gorden Grange of West Indies.

·         Also Inzamam-ul-Haq is the only bats man to score Centuries in his 100th and 101st match.

·         In 2001 Pakistani Cricket team leveled a 46 years old record. In this particular match 5 Pakistanis made centuries against Bangladesh.

·         Pakistan’s former captain and the best bowler Wasim Akram has got six world records for his country. Three of those were made in a single match:

·         In 1996-97, Wasim Akram scored 257 runs, he hit most number of sixes (12) of an innings and made a world record for 8th wicket partner ship with Saqlain Mushtaq. Saqlain scored 79 runs in that innings, he had come as night watchman (highest score ever made by a night watch man is 201* made by Gillispe of Australia in 2006)

·         Wasim Akram has been declared man of match for 13 times in test cricket. Its the maximum times he has been the Man of Match.

·         Wasim Akram is the only bowler who made hat-trick in two consecutive test matches.

·         Wasim Akram is the only bowler to make two hat-tricks in both ODI and Test.

·         Yasir Hameed is the only player who made centuries in both innings of his debut.
REfernces:
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