pakistan world cup history

2009 ICC World T20

On 21 June 2009 Pakistan won the 2009 ICC World Twenty20, beating Sri Lanka in the final by eight wickets. Pakistan had begun the tournament slowly losing two of their first three matches but after dismissing New Zealand for 99 runs in the Super 8 stage they had a run of four consecutive wins including beating previously unbeaten South Africa, in the semi-final and Sri Lanka.

2011 Cricket World Cup

Pakistan started well in the ICC Cricket World Cup, which was held in India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, after beating Kenya, Sri Lanka(one of the tournament favourites) and narrowly beating Canada. After a huge loss against New Zealand, Pakistan defeated Zimbabwe by 7 wickets.'. One of the highlights of the tournament for Pakistan was when they beat Australia, who were led by 3 brilliant pace bowlers, Brett Lee, Shaun Tait and Mitchell Johnson. However Pakistan defied the odds and defeated Australia, courtesy of a brilliant bowling display. In the Quarter-Finals they played West Indies. Pakistan were ruthless, as they emphatically beat the West Indies by 10 wickets, due to another brilliant bowling display. In the Semi-Finals on 30 March, Pakistan had a match with its fiercest rival, India. India, due to Tendulkar who was dropped several times, managed 260 after they batted first. Due to a slow chase, Pakistan were 29 runs short as India reached the final (India went on to win the final). Pakistan have never defeated India in an ODI World Cup match to date, losing in all 5 matches contested between the two sides.

2012 ICC World T20 Cricket

On 11 July 2012, Pakistan announced the provisional 30-man squad for the World Twenty20 and finally decided their 15-man squad by september.^[28]. Pakistan won a match against South Africa and Australia in their Super-8s. The team was nearly knocked out of the tournament since it tied points with Team India, which also had two wins and one loss. Pakistan had to defeat Australia by a big margin to make sure their Net run rate (NRR) was good enough for the semi-finals, and set a target of 150 for Australia to chase. Australia made 112 and managed to qualify for the semi-finals. On the same day, team India managed to defeat South Africa (already eliminated before the match), but did not qualify for the semi-finals as they had to defeat South Africa by 31 runs (India won by 1 run). Pakistan met Sri Lanka in the semi-finals on October 4 and lost by 15 runs, getting knocked out of the tournament. The captain's decision to let Abdul Razzaq, and Asad Shafiq sit out of the match instead of Shahid Afridi (who scored 0 runs in the match) was heavily criticized by supporters. Criticism also came from letting out-of-form Umar Gul play every single match instead of Mohammad Sami. Pakistan is still the only team to have reached the semi-finals in all T20 tournaments.