History Lesson: Pakistan Won 1992 World Cup After Losing Badly to India, West Indies

[RiazHaq]

Haq's Musings: Pakistan Won 1992 World Cup After Losing to India and West Indies

Pakistan cricket team has drawn widespread derision after performing miserably in its first two matches of World Cup 2015. Many Pakistanis are understandably very angry at the top batting order that fell like flies to create a new world record of the loss of 4 wickets in the first few minutes of the match against West Indies with the score stuck at 1 run.




While I agree with much of the criticism of the Pakistan cricket team for its poor performance seen so far, I do think the hysteria is unnecessary. All we have to do is to look at the history of Pakistan's performance in the 1992 World Cup which Pakistan won.

Like the 2015 World Cup, the 1992 Cricket World Cupwas hosted by Australia and New Zealand. Before going on to win the1992 World Cup, Pakistan lost badly to three teams: India, West Indies and South Africa. Here are the scores from these matches:

Pakistan (173 runs) lost to India (216/7) by 43 runs.

Pakistan (220/2) lost to West Indies (220/0) by 10 wickets.

Pakistan (173/8) lost to South Africa (211/7) by 38 runs.Pakistan were bowled out by England for a meager 74 runs. Had luck not favored the Pakistanis with rain in England-Pakistan match, the "talented" 1992 players like Imran Khan, Wasim Akram and Javed Miandad would not have gone on to win the 1992 World Cup. Instead, they would have returned home defeated.


1992 World Cup Points Table Source: Wikipedia

Pakistan side remains as talented and resilient but unpredictable as ever. While the start of the 2015 World Cup is terrible for Pakistan's national team, it's too early to write them off. Let's hope Pakistan can still repeat the 1992 performance yet again.


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Haq's Musings: Pakistan Won 1992 World Cup After Losing to India and West Indies

 

[Stephen Cohen]

@RiazHaq

It would be better if you had done some HOMEWORK

That Pakistani team of 1992 was brilliant and had many very talented players

Compared to them the present team looks like a bunch of school boys

 

[ito]

Mishbah is not Imran Khan.

 

[Dubious]

So they are off to re write history?

@RiazHaq

It would be better if you had done some HOMEWORK

That Pakistani team of 1992 was brilliant and had many very talented players

Compared to them the present team looks like a bunch of school boys

Mishbah is not Imran Khan.

Abe sharam kar nalayk.!

Remove the thread why do you want to get more bezzzati?hata isse

I dont get why you guys are burning with negativeness...Its a free forum anyone can post any of their views!

 

[Londonlight]

khudkushi

 

[Stephen Cohen]

So they are off to re write history?


I dont get why you guys are burning with negativeness...Its a free forum anyone can post any of their views!

We are just pointing out his juvenile analysis and logical absurdity

 

[sree45]

This Pakistan team is ordinary. No ajmal, no hafeez, no junaid. and their replacements are not where near their standards.

 

[ito]

So they are off to re write history?




I dont get why you guys are burning with negativeness...Its a free forum anyone can post any of their views!

No negativeness..in fact I would like pak to go to next round so that there could be another India pak match, though I would like India to beat Pak again

 

[Dubious]

We are just pointing out his juvenile analysis and logical absurdity

Then point em out using logical and analysis ....Define brilliant, define talented players and so on....

@RiazHaq

It would be better if you had done some HOMEWORK

That Pakistani team of 1992 was brilliant and had many very talented players

Compared to them the present team looks like a bunch of school boys

Keep it civil

No negativeness..in fact I would like pak to go to next round so that there could be another India pak match

Ahh good to hear some positiveness...I on the other hand am not watching a single match ...so the highlights that was enough to make me puke! Even my cousins in our street can play better than that!

 

[RiazHaq]

@RiazHaq

It would be better if you had done some HOMEWORK

That Pakistani team of 1992 was brilliant and had many very talented players

Compared to them the present team looks like a bunch of school boys

The 1992 Pakistani team was subjected to very harsh criticism at the time for losing to India and West Indies.

Pakistan lost 3 of their first 5 matches and were nearly eliminated in the first round of the tournament after being bowled out for 74 runs against England, until the match was declared as a "no result" due to rain. Imran Khan famously told the team to play as "cornered tigers", after which Pakistan won five successive matches, including, most famously, the semi-final against hosts New Zealand and the final against England

 

[Stephen Cohen]

The 1992 Pakistani team was subjected to very harsh criticism at the time for losing to India and West Indies.

Still in terms of TALENT they were LIGHT YEARS Ahead of the Present team

 

[definitelynotIndian]

The 1992 Pakistani team was subjected to very harsh criticism at the time for losing to India and West Indies.

Do you really think Pakistan can win this world cup? In your losses did you see something that could be changed in next few matches and have a turn around?
In my opinion Pakistan has really bad fielding right now. Bowling is okay if they can stop dropping catches bowling isnt that bad but batting is also very poor. Your top order has flopped.

I would say good luck against South Africa and Ireland.

 

[FARAZ TIRMIZI]

DONT WORRY MISBAH WE'LL FORGET DIS SOON. CHEERS

 

[ito]

Abe sharam kar nalayk.!

Remove the thread why do you want to get more bezzzati?hata isse

(This is pun intended )

The OP must be your grand father's age man!

 

[duhastmish]

The OP must be your grand father's age man!

You sound like really smart. Probably as smart as this post!