Pakistani cricket team
The Pakistani cricket team is a national cricket team representing Pakistan. It is administrated by the Pakistan Cricket Board.
Pakistan is a full member of the International Cricket Council with Test and one-day international status. It played its first Test match in 1952 (against India at Delhi), becoming the seventh Test nation.
Pakistan has long been a moderately strong team, occasionally verging on brilliance. Amongst many cricket followers, however, the team has a reputation for inconsistent performance, being unbeatable one day and looking decidedly poor the next. Pakistan has produced many excellent bowlers such as Imran Khan, Wasim Akram, Waqar Younis, and Shoaib Akhtar, but fewer top class batsmen. Pakistan's bowlers are known for developing and perfecting the art of reverse swing bowling to a high degree of proficiency.
History of Pakistani international cricket
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In 2004, Pakistan has had a mixed set of results. India toured Pakistan after a long gap(I will update with the exact years - I think it was 16).
It lost its home series both in ODI (2-3) and Tests(1-2) to India. The One Day Series was very closely fought affair. The first match at Karachi, saw Pakistan chase a mammth 350 runs, and after an indifferent start, the came within sights of a victory but lost by 5 odd runs. The rest of the matches were also closely fought.
Pakistan also lost out and failed to qualify for the finals of the Asian Cup, following where they failed to clinch a bonus point and hence could not qualify even though they lost one less match than India who qualified for the finals. Srilanka eventually won that final.
