Pakistan national cricket team

This article is about the men's team. For the women's team, see Pakistan women's national cricket team.

Pakistan
Nickname(s)Shaheens (lit. 'Falcons')[1]
Green Shirts[2]
Men in Green[3]
Cornered Tigers[4][5]
AssociationPakistan Cricket Board
Personnel
Test captainShan Masood
One Day captainMohammad Rizwan
T20I captainMohammad Rizwan
Test coachJason Gillespie
One Day & T20 coachAaqib Javed (interim)
Fielding coachMuhammad Masroor
ManagerNaveed Akram Cheema
History
Test status acquired1952
Hong Kong Sixes wins5
International Cricket Council
ICC statusFull Member (1952)
ICC regionACC
ICC Rankings Current[11] Best-ever
Test 7th 1st (1 August 1988)[6]
ODI 3rd 1st (1 December 1990)[7][8][9]
T20I 7th 1st (1 November 2017)[10]
Tests
First Testv  India at the Feroz Shah Kotla Ground, Delhi; 16–18 October 1952
Last Testv  England at Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium, Rawalpindi; 24–26 October 2024
Tests Played Won/Lost
Total[12] 461 150/145
(166 draws)
This year[13] 6 2/4 (0 draws)
World Test Championship appearances2 (first in 2021)
Best result6th place (2021)
One Day Internationals
First ODIv  New Zealand at Lancaster Park, Christchurch; 11 February 1973
Last ODIv  Australia at Perth Stadium, Perth; 10 November 2024
ODIs Played Won/Lost
Total[14] 973 514/429
(9 ties, 21 no results)
This year[15] 3 2/1 (0 ties, 0 no results)
World Cup appearances12 (first in 1975)
Best resultChampions (1992)
Twenty20 Internationals
First T20Iv  England at the Bristol County Ground, Bristol; 28 August 2006
Last T20Iv  Australia at Bellerive Oval, Hobart; 18 November 2024
T20Is Played Won/Lost
Total[16] 248 142/95
(4 ties, 7 no results)
This year[17] 22 7/13
(1 tie, 1 no result)
T20 World Cup appearances8 (first in 2007)
Best resultChampions (2009)

Test kit

ODI kit

T20I kit

As of 18 November 2024

The Pakistan national cricket team has represented Pakistan in international cricket since 1952. It is controlled by the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), the governing body for cricket in Pakistan, which is a Full Member of the International Cricket Council (ICC). Pakistan compete in cricket tours and tournaments sanctioned by the PCB and other regional or international cricket bodies in Test, One Day International (ODI), and Twenty20 International (T20) formats. Pakistan are current ICC Champions Trophy holders.

Pakistan were given Test status in 1952 following a recommendation from India, but faced limited international success until the 1980s, when they became fixtures in the latter stages of tournaments. They won their first international trophy, the ICC World Cup, in 1992, and then won the Asia Cup in 2000. They saw increased success in the 21st century, winning the T20 World Cup in 2009, the Asia Cup in 2012, and ICC Champions Trophy in 2017. Pakistan won the first Asian Test Championship in 1999, and was the fourth team to win the now-defunct ICC Test Championship in 2016.[18][19] Pakistan have the second-highest win percentage in international T20 cricket (with a minimum of 150 games played),[20] the fourth-highest win percentage in ODI cricket,[21] and the fourth-best win-loss ratio in Test cricket (both with a minimum of 400 games played).[22]

Pakistan has been plagued by security concerns and domestic instability due to terrorism and the war on terror, restricting it as a venue for international cricket in the 21st century. Despite hosting the 1987 and 1996 World Cups (with the 1996 final played in Lahore), cricket was not played in the country after an attack against the Sri Lanka national team in 2009; Pakistan then played one-day games in the United Arab Emirates until 2016 and Test games in the UAE until 2019.[23][24] International cricket was resumed in Pakistan from 2016, which coincided with the debut of the Pakistan Super League, following improvements in security and overall reduction in terrorism.[25][26]

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