Pakistan has always done well in cricket although hockey is Pakistan's national game. Pakistan has always had a positive winning ratio throughout their history as their international record suggests. In test Pakistan has 138 wins and 131 losses, in ODI's Pakistan has 486 wins and lost 413 times and in Twenty20 Internationals Pakistan has 93 wins and 56 losses. This shows that Pakistan has constantly been a successful cricket playing nation and they have shown consistency in their performance throughout their history.
In test cricket Pakistan was briefly ranked no. 1 in test cricket under Misbah ul Haq's captaincy. In ODI cricket Pakistan won the 1992 World Cup under Imran Khan's captaincy and were runner's up in 1999 World Cup under Wasim Akram's captaincy. In recent past Pakistan won the Champions trophy in 2017 under Sarfraz Ahmed captaincy. In twenty20 cricket Pakistan won the 2009 Twenty20 World Cup, and were runners up in 2007 twenty20 World cup and semi finalists in 2010 and 2012 twenty20 World Cup's.
Of all the three formats of the game Pakistan has been most consistently successful in Twenty 20 Internationals as compared to ODI's and test match cricket. This is because Pakistani batsmen have always focused on hitting the ball and going for big shots instead of batting cautiously and watching the ball closely. Also because Pakistani bowlers have always been hard to hit because of fast bowlers giving hard ball to batsmen and their spin bowlers turning the ball hugely.
Nevertheless Pakistan has always been a tough opponent for their opposing teams in cricket in any format because of their huge talent and huge and tremendous talent base in all aspects of the game whether it being batting, bowling or fielding.
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