Wasim Akram as Captain

Wasim Akram led Pakistan to many great victories as captain. Under Wasim Akram's captaincy Pakistan reached the 1999 World Cup final. This was Pakistan's last great performance in a 50 over World Cup. Otherwise Pakistan had very disappointing campaigns in 2003, 2007, 2015, 2019 and 2023 World Cup. The lone exception being 2011 World Cup when Pakistan reached the semi finals under Shahid Afridi's captaincy.

A great achievement under Wasim Akram's captaincy was the Carlton and United Series in Australia in 1996/1997 when Pakistan beat West Indies in the best of three finals to win the tournament. Australia which was the World best test side in that era failed to reach the finals and won just three matches out of eight in the competition.

As a test captain Wasim Akram won the Asian test Championship beating Sri Lanka in the final in 1999 in Dhaka. Besides defeating England in England  in 1996 in the test series 2-0.

In the end what I would like to say is that if Wasim Akram had been allowed to stay as captain till the 2003 World Cup he would have led to Pakistan to more and better victories.