Pakistan s wins in major tournaments

 Pakistan has won a major tournament in two formats of the game that is in two tournaments of ICC in ODI format namely the world Cup of 1992 and champions trophy of 2017. In twenty20 we won the 2009 twenty20 World Cup tournament which was held in England.

In 1992 World Cup after a terrible start we came from behind to win the tournament. After 5 matches Pakistan had won just one match lost three and one match as no result. Pakistan were at the bottom of the table along with zimbabwe. Then came their match against Australia. Pakistan bowled extremely well setting a target of 220 to Australia on the fast WACA pitch and eventually bowled the hosts Australia for 180 which began Pakistan revival in the 1992 World Cup. Pakistan then went onto defeat srilanka and new Zealand to enter the semi finals of the 1992 World Cup.

Chasing a target of 263 Pakistan was struggling at 140 for 4 in the 35th over. In came inzamam who played a match winning knock of 63 runs of just 37 balls to win the semi final for Pakistan. In the final, javed Miandad and imran Khan s slow batting was pushing Pakistan s towards a below par total then inzamam and later wasim akram pushed the run rate with their knocks of better than a run a ball. Pakistan were able to post a fighting total of 249 runs and Pakistan were able to defend that total to win the 1992 World Cup which proved to be pakistan's only world Cup win in so many world cups played so far. 

Now I will talk about Pakistan's Champion's trophy win in 2017. Pakistan entered the tournament as the bottom ranked team. They were 8th in the ICC ratings when the tournament started so there was no surprise when India crushed Pakistan to open Pakistan's campaign in their first match. Then on Pakistan looked a completely different side from their first match as they defeated South Africa in a rain hit match. In their next last qualifying match they defeated Sri Lanka after Mohammad Amir and Sarfraz Ahmed match winning partnership stole the match from Sri Lanka's hands and Pakistan entered the Semi Finals. Pakistan then produced a brilliant show with both bat and ball to beat England and reach the final of Champions Trophy. Fakhar Zaman played a brilliant knock of a hundred plus score to lead Pakistan to a tremendous total of 339 runs. India were never in the hunt in their chase after Muhammad Amir's brilliant opening spell of 3 wickets and Pakistan won the Champions Trophy for the very first time in its history.

In the end will like to conclude that after a disappointing loss in 2007 ICC twenty20 World Cup Final , Pakistan bounced back on the behalf of brilliant all round performance of Shahid Afridi to win the ICC 2009 Twenty20 World Cup.