Pakistan is considered to be the most ‘unpredictable’ team in the world of cricket. That means a team which can surprise at any time. Sometimes with its astonishing performance it easily defeats every big and small team and sometimes it even loses to the new or less experienced teams. Therefore, no one ever makes the mistake of taking this team lightly based on its current form. Nevertheless, the performance of the Pakistani team has declined significantly in recent times and one statistic has revealed the raw truth of the Pakistani team’s lagging behind.
On Sunday 1 December, the Pakistani team took the field for the T20 series against Zimbabwe. Pakistan is playing this series without captain Mohammad Rizwan, former captain Babar Azam and Shaheen Shah Afridi. In such a situation, vice-captain Agha Salman took command of the team and in the very first match he gave an excellent victory to Pakistan by 57 runs. While this victory of Pakistan gave it a sigh of relief after the recent results, it does not hide the truth which tells the story of the poor condition of Pakistan.
team winning least matches
This year, many international matches were played in T20 format including the World Cup. Every team has played many T20 matches in preparation for the World Cup and also after the tournament. If we calculate all these matches then the situation of Pakistani team appears to be the worst. If we talk about the last one year, Pakistan is at the very last position in the list of top 10 teams in terms of wins. During this period, Pakistan played 22 T20 matches, in which it won only 7, while faced defeat in 14. Only one match remained inconclusive. That means Pakistan’s winning percentage is only 31.82 percent, which is 10 percent less than Bangladesh. Whereas Team India won maximum 27 out of 30 matches i.e. 90 percent of the matches.
There was a bad situation in the World Cup
Now Pakistan has definitely defeated Zimbabwe but its situation is still not good. Just a few days ago, it had to face a 0-3 clean sweep at the hands of Australia. In that series where Pakistan had entered with its full strength, some key players of Australia were not playing. This year has not been good for Pakistan in any way, where it got defeated by Ireland for the first time and then its fate in the T20 World Cup cannot be forgotten. Not only did it suffer a crushing defeat from a completely new team like America, but it was eliminated in the first round of the World Cup itself.