Pakistan vs West Indies test series 2026

 

This time West Indies are the favourites as they just defeated Sri Lanka by a margin of 1-0 in the recent test series and Pakistan were on the other hand whitewashed by Bangladesh 2-0 in Bangladesh in May. In this way West Indies are on a high and Pakistan are in a low.

Pakistan will find it very hard to get 20 wickets on the west indies tour in a test match as they have an inexperienced pace attack comprising of Aamir Jamal, Mohammad Ali and Ubaid Shah. Of these three pace bowlers only Ubaid Shah is genuinely quick while Mohammad Ali and Aamir Jamal are mere medium pacers.

In the end what I would like to say is that Babar Azam's comeback stint as captain will be severely tested by the West Indies team.

Pakistan vs India head to head in twenty20 internationals

 

India literally dominates Pakistan in twenty20 format with 10 wins in 13 matches compared to just 3 wins by Pakistan. Pakistan lost thrice to India in the recent Asia Cup in UAE in 2025 and after that they lost the twenty20 World Cup fixture held in Colombo in 2026.

All these defeats of Pakistan by India is surprising as just after the Ahmedabad final of twenty20 world cup that India won they lost to Ireland 2-0 and now just recently they lost to England 4-0 in twenty20 internationals held this year in 2026. If India can lose to a weak team like minnows Ireland that too twice then why cant Pakistan defeat India in Twenty20 cricket. This is surely an underachievement by Pakistan in Twenty20 Internationals against India.

In the end what i would like to say is that Pakistan definitely has the ability to defeat India in twenty20 internationals.

Lack of fast bowling talent in Pakistan

 

Pakistan may be blessed with a lot of spin bowling talent like Noman Ali, Sajid khan, Arafat Minhas and Abrar Ahmad to name a few but on the other hand they are struggling in fast bowling department with pacers of genuine pace.

Khurram Shahzad, Mohammad Abbas, Hasan ali and to some extent Shaheen Afridi are all medium pacers at best with no pace. Shaheen Afridi used to be a genuine fast bowler with a lot of pace and reverse swing but ever since his injury in 2023 during the Galle test in Sri Lanka against Sri Lanka he has lost all his pace and therefore venom in his bowling.

Pakistan has taken various steps like selecting Ubaid Shah for the tour of West Indies but they should have selected Ali raza as well as bowler of raw pace.

In the end what I would like to say is that with Shan Masood being replaced as captain by Babar Azam hopefully the results will come in favour of Pakistan in test cricket.

Shan Masood's tenure as test captain

 

Shan Masood's record as captain of Pakistan's test side has been dismal to say the least. Of the 16 test matches he has captained Pakistan have won just four and lost twelve test matches under him with whitewashes of twice 2-0 against Bangladesh, Australia 3-0 and South africa 2-0. Pakistan also finished at the bottom of 2023-2025 Test Championship cycle under Shan Masood's test captaincy.

Shan Masood twice losing to Bangladesh is unbelievable as Bangladesh is a weak test team and they just lost to minnows Zimbabwe in Zimbabwe by an innings. We should nt have twice lost to Bangladesh by identical margins of 2-0 and should have defeated them clearly showing shan Masood's lack of captaincy skills.

In the end what I would like to say is that we should better replace Shan Masood as test captain immediately then only Pakistan's performance will improve in test cricket.

Carlton and United Series 1996/1997

 

Pakistan won the Carlton and United Series trophy held in Australia featuring Australia, West Indies and Pakistan in 1997. Pakistan defeated West Indies in the best of three finals by a margin of 2-0. Shahid Afridi was declared man of the finals as he gave a superb all round performance in the finals against West Indies.

Pakistan defeated Australia thrice in the series defeating them in Adelaide, Sydney and Hobart. They were defeated thrice by West Indies in the tournament winning just once before the finals which was played between Pakistan and West Indies.

It was one of the rare series in triangular World Series in Australia in which Australia failed to reach the best of three finals played in Sydney and Melbourne. Pakistan ended with 4 wins out of 8 matches, West Indies 5 wins out of 8 matches and Australia 3 wins out of 8 matches.

In the end what I would like to say is that this was Pakistan's only win in World Series Cups played in Australia in so many attempts and years.

    

Pakistan's first ever test win against South Africa

 

Pakistan defeated South Africa for the first time ever in a test match in Durban in 1998. In that match Saeed Anwar scored a brilliant century in the second innings and Azhar Mahmood scored a superb hundred in the first innings. Azhar Mahmood had a brilliant series scoring a century in the first test at Johannesburg which was drawn.

Shoaib Akhtar for the very first time in Pakistan colours although he made his debut in 1997 against West Indies was effective bowling with plenty of venom, pace and reverse swing to take five wickets in the first innings in Durban test allowing Pakistan to take the lead against South Africa.

Then Mushtaq Ahmed bowled with plenty of guile and wizardly to bowl Pakistan to victory over South Africa in the second innings by narrow margin.

In the end what I would like to say is that Pakistan in those days were ranked amongst the top test playing nations in the world.

Shaheen Shah Afridi's captaincy.

 

Shaheen Shah Afridi is doing a pretty good job as captain winning three series out of four like winning against strong teams such as Sri Lanka 3-0, South Africa 2-1 and now against World Champions Australia 2-1 which was Pakistan's third consecutive win in ODI series against Australia winning in 2022, 2024 and now in 2026. 

His only defeat so far has come against Bangladesh in Bangladesh 2-1 which is not surprising as Bangladesh are almost invincible at home and have beaten not only Pakistan but West Indies, New Zealand and world champions Australia at their home.

Shaheen Afridi's real test of captaincy will come when Pakistan plays an abroad ODI series as all his wins in ODI series have come at home in Pakistan.

In the end what I would like to say is that if Shaheen Shah Afridi somehow fails to deliver as captain of the ODI team then Fakhar Zaman shall replace him as ODI captain in the future.