Pakistani team will wins the World Cup and become champions?

 

 

 

Pakistani team will wins the World Cup and become champions?

….Asghar Ali Mubarak……

The Pakistani team is in India to participate in the 13th edition of the ICC Men’s World Cup, the biggest international cricket competition, will the Pakistani team win the World Cup and become champions for the second time? Although the Pakistani team was exposed in all fields due to poor performance in the Asia Cup, but still it is considered among the favorite teams due to the world number position. Play against all the other 9 teams on the soil of which will reach the semi-finals and then the final? And will they win the World Cup and become world champions for the second time? The Pakistan team is playing cricket after 7 years on the soil of India. After that, both of them played matches against each other in other countries, but they did not face each other in any format on each other’s land.

Interestingly, all the players of the Pakistani team are playing cricket on Indian soil for the first time.
The manner in which the Pakistani team piled up in front of New Zealand in spite of the big total in the warm-up match, a question mark has been put on the performance of the team.

There is no pressure on the Pakistani team. The underdog Pakistani team is known as an unpredictable team that can do anything at any time, which can be seen in the past.

The World Cup will be played from October 5 to November 19. Teams from ten countries are participating in this tournament, which lasts for one and a half months, like the previous edition. According to the ranking of the Cricket World Cup Super League, 8 major countries, including the host country India, are directly participating in

the World Cup 2023, while two Countries have qualified for the tournament through the ICC Cricket World Cup

League and the ICC Cricket World Cup Qualifier Playoffs. The two qualifying countries are Sri Lanka and the Netherlands, while the eight countries directly participating in the tournament are India, Australia, England, South Africa, New Zealand, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan.

In the first stage, each of these 10 teams will play one match with the other 9 teams and then the top four teams on the points table will go to the semi-finals and the final will be played between the two teams that succeed in them. will The winning team will be crowned the 13th World Cup champion. The Pakistan team was limited to the group stage of the last two World Cups only. Earlier, in all the 12 ICC World Cup tournaments played in different countries over the past 48 years, Pakistan became the world champions only once and finished as runners-up once. That is, he reached the World Cup finals only twice. For the first time, he became the champion by defeating England under the leadership of Imran Khan in the final of the 1992 World Cup. Now almost 32 years have passed since this feat. The second time they reached the final of the World Cup in 1999, but lost to Australia and missed out on winning the World Cup. 24 years have passed since this incident. Apart from these two occasions, Pakistan lost four times in the semi-finals and twice in the quarter-finals.

India is hosting the World Cup alone for the first time, as it has previously hosted the tournament three times with its neighboring countries. For the first time in 1987, India and Pakistan hosted jointly. Then for the second time in 1996, Sri Lanka also participated with them. For the third time in 2011, Bangladesh was added to these hosts, but due to security concerns in Pakistan, no match of the World Cup was played here. If we review the history of the World Cup, Pakistan’s performance in all the 12 World Cup editions has been average. However, the players set many important records individually, in the 12 editions of the World Cup, a total of 20 teams have participated and Pakistan has played against 17 of them. He did not play any World Cup matches against only two teams, Bermuda and East Africa. In the World Cup, Pakistan played a total of 79 one-day international matches, out of which they won 45 and lost 32, while two matches remained inconclusive. Pakistan’s success rate in the World Cup is 58.44%.

Pakistan’s highest score in a match is 349 runs against Zimbabwe in 49.5 overs. The match was played on 21 March 2007 in Kingston, Jamaica. However, Pakistan’s lowest score in a match is 74 runs which it scored against England on March 1, 1992 in Adelaide.

Pakistan’s biggest success in terms of runs in the World Cup was on February 23, 2011 at Hambantota in Sri Lanka by defeating Kenya by 205 runs. I beat the West Indies by 10 wickets to achieve the biggest victory in terms of wickets. Pakistan’s smallest victory in terms of runs in the World Cup was by 10 runs against Australia at Leeds on 23 May 1999. of His narrowest margin of victory in terms of wickets was by just one wicket against the West Indies

in Lahore on 16 October 1987. Pakistan’s highest run-scorer in the World Cup is Javed Miandad who During his 21-year career, he played 6 World Cup editions and scored 1083 runs in 33 ODIs at an average of 43.32. He is the only Pakistani player to score 1000 or more runs in the World Cup so far Pakistan’s highest run-scorer Imran

Nazir scored 160 against Zimbabwe on 21 March 2007 in Kingston. However, Rameez Raja and Saeed Anwar are the batsmen who have scored the most individual centuries for Pakistan in the World Cup. Both scored three centuries each. Saeed Anwar is the only Pakistani batsman to score three consecutive centuries in the World Cup.

He scored the first two centuries in 1999 and the third in the 2003 World Cup. The most innings of 50 or more runs for Pakistan in the World Cup is Javed Miandad who played nine such innings. These include a century and 8 fifties. The Pakistani all-rounder who hit the most sixes in the World Cup is Shahid Afridi, who hit 12 sixes in 27

matches, while the most sixes in an innings is Pakistan’s Imran Nazir, who hit 8 sixes during his 160-run innings. .
The Pakistani batsman who scored the most runs in any World Cup tournament is the current team captain Babar Azam who scored 474 runs at an average of 67.71 in 8 matches in the tournament played in England in 2019.

The bowler who took most wickets is Wasim Akram who took 55 wickets at an average of 23.83 after playing 38 matches. The Pakistani record for best bowling in any innings in the World Cup was set by the fast bowler of the current team, Shaheen Shah Afridi. During the last World Cup, he took 6 wickets for 35 runs against Bangladesh at Lord’s, London on 5 July 2019, while Shahid Khan Afridi is the Pakistani bowler who has taken four or more

wickets in an innings the most times. He played 27 matches and took 30 wickets at an average of 27.70. He took five wickets in an innings twice and four wickets in an innings twice while he is also the Pakistani bowler who has taken the most wickets in any World Cup tournament. He took 21 wickets at an average of 12.85 in 8 matches during the World Cup 2011. The Pakistani wicketkeeper Moin Khan, who has taken the most wickets behind the

wickets, has taken 30 wickets in 20 matches. These include 23 catches and 7 stumps. While the wicket keeper who hunts the most in the innings is Sarfraz Ahmed, who caught out 6 South African players behind the wickets in Auckland on March 7, 2015. Thus he equaled the World Cup record which was set by Australia’s Adam Gilchrist on February 27, 2003 against Namibia in Puchseftroum. He played 10 matches and took 16 catches in the 1999

edition. Among them are 12 catches and 4 stumps. The most capped player for Pakistan is Wasim Akram who participated in five editions of the World Cup from 1987 to 2003 and played 38 matches. However, Imran Khan is the captain who has led Pakistan in the most number of World Cup matches. He captained the national team in 22

matches of three consecutive editions since 1983. Pakistan has participated in all 12 World Cups. It is hoped that Pakistan will qualify for the semi-finals and can win worldcup event if the team pays full attention to its game plan not on social activities.