Pakistan vs West Indies- World Cup Records

• The two teams have played 8 world cup matches against each other. Six matches were won by West Indies while two were won by Pakistan
• Both teams met in the semi-finals of 1979 and 1983 ICC Cricket World Cup, both matches were won by West Indies.
• Rameez Raja from Pakistan and Richie Richardson from West Indies have scored a century in world cup matches between these two countries.
• Pakistani bowler Shoaib Akhtar and Abdur Razzaq took crucial 5 wickets of West Indies cricket team in the 1999 ICC Cricket World Cup match enabling Pakistan to win the match by 27 runs.
• In the 2007 ICC Cricket World Cup group match, Pakistan was bowled out on 187 runs when they were chasing West Indies’s 241. Dwayne Smith and Dwayne Bravo took 3 wickets apiece.
• The two teams last met in 2009 ICC Champions Trophy, the match was won by Pakistan by 5 wickets.
• Chris Gayle, Kamran Akmal, Muhammad Hafeez, Ramnaresh Sarwan, Umar Gul and Younis Khan are the only veteran players from 2007 ICC Cricket World Cup.
• Pakistan cricket team didn’t play any match against West Indies cricket team in the 1996 and 2003 ICC Cricket World Cup.

Top ten centuries of Pakistani players in test matches

A test match century tests the stamina of a cricket player. It is a glorious moment in the career of any player to achieve top class century in test matches. Hanif Mohammad is amongst those players of Pakistan who are still ranked amongst the world’s top ten centuries in test matches. Younis Khan, on other hand, has managed to get his name twice on the list of top ten centuries of Pakistani players in test matches. Here is the list of the top ten players who have made centuries in test matches in their careers.

Player	Score	Year
Hanif Mohammad	337	17 Jan 1958
Inzamam-ul-Haq	329	1 May 2002
Younis Khan	313	21 Feb 2009
Javed Miandad	280*	14 Jan 1983
Zaheer Abbas	274	3 Jun 1971
Javed Miandad	271	24 Feb 1989
Younis Khan	267	24 Mar 2005
Javed Miandad	260	6 Aug 1987
Wasim Akram	257*	17 Oct 1996
Zaheer Abbas	240	22 Aug 1974

Pakistan cricket team squad for 2011 ICC World Cup

One of the most unpredictable cricket team Pakistan has finally announced its squad for 2011 ICC World Cup. The most interesting aspect of the announcement is that the captain will be decided later. Pakistan cricket team would most probably be headed by Shahid Afridi.  Unpredictable Shahid Afridi leading the unpredictable Pakistani cricket team! Expect anything. With all the controversies around Pakistan cricket team, the men in green still beat in the hearts of Pakistanis. With players like Abdul Razzaq, Umar Akmal and Umar Gul, Pakistan cricket team could be the most destructive team of the 2011 ICC World Cup. The squad of Pakistan cricket team for 2011 ICC World Cup is:

1)      Shahid Afridi

2)      Misbahul Haq

3)      Kamran Akmal

4)      Mohammad Hafeez

5)      Younis Khan

6)      Asad Shafiq

7)      Umar Akmal

8)      Abdul Razzaq

9)      Abdul Rehman

10)   Saeed Ajmal

11)   Shoaib Akhtar

12)   Umar Gul

13)   Wahab Riaz

14)   Junaid Khan

15)   Ahmad Shahzad

Hat-tricks done by bowlers in T20 cricket

Likewise Test Cricket and One day Internationals (ODIs), T20 game of cricket has seen three hat tricks to date. First ever hat trick in T29 cricket is made by Australian Fast Bowler Brett Lee who dismissed Bangladesh batsmen Shakib Al Hasan, Mashrafe Mortaza and Alok Kapali in three consecutive deliveries  at Cape Town,  South Africa during a 2007-2008 season.

Second Hat-trick was made during 2009 cricket season at Colombo, Srilanka where New Zealand’s JP Oram playing against Srilanka on their home ground, took three wickets in a row. He preyed Srilankan batsmen viz. AD Mathews, CM Bandara and KMDN Kulasekara in a great fashion.

Third time history was written at Auckland, New Zealand  in the recent 2010/2011 Pakistan New Zealand Series where Tim Southee claimed a hat trick against Pakistan by dismissing Younis Khan, Mohammad Hafeez and Umar Akmal. He not only made a hat-trick but also became the first Kiwi bowler to become the five wicket taker in T20 Internationals.

2007-2010 ICC World T20: Best Captain World Cup Wise…

Under the dazzling captaincy of Mahindra Singh Dhoni, India won the first ICC World T20 which was played in South Africa, beating Pakistan in the final. During 2007 ICC World T20, MS Dhoni played his first match of the tournament as captain against Scotland which was abandoned due to rain. The next match was between India and Pakistan where Indian bowlers defeated Pakistan 3-0 in first ever World T20 Bowl Out and moved to Super 8s and then into the Semis. India faced its arch rival Pakistan in the final and the nail biting match ended in India’s favour where Dhoni held the first T20 World cup Trophy. The year 2009 was the year for Pakistani team who won the ICC World T20 trophy under the captaincy of Younis Khan. Younis Khan played 7 matches as a captain of which he won 5 matches, ensuing in a success ratio of 71% during 2009 ICC World T20. During 2010 ICC World T20, the best captaincy crown was kept on the head of English Skipper Paul Collingwood who led the England to win the 2010 ICC World T20 Cup by defeating Australia. These are the best captains of 2007-2010 ICC World T20.

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