AFTER ACHIEVING HIGH RANKING IN ICC, WILL PAKISTAN PERFORM THE SAME IN ENGLAND TOO?

We all love our nation don’t we? On the top of that we are diehard fans of cricket and are always in hopes of our team winning when they are playing against our competitors. As we have the ICC T20 Cricket World Cup fresh in our minds lets delve into that a little bit and know more about it. What do we know about the ICC T20 Cricket World Cup? Let me give you some details that will broaden your perspectives. Since the start of the ICC T20 Cricket World Cup 2015, Pakistan has played around 18 ODIS in total out of which it has lost nine and won eight of them. That’s quite an achievement. However, Pakistan ranking in ICC was not that good. They won one match and that was against Bangladesh. Pakistan lost its last match against Australia after which its journey ended in the tournament.

Now, you might be wondering why I am giving you all of this information about Pakistan Ranking in ICC T20. Why is this information so important? As a matter of fact, if we talk about statistics then Pakistan ranks at the third rank on the ICC Test Championship Charts, ranks ninth on the ICC ODI Championship and seventh on the ICC Twenty20 Championship. Now on the contrary, the question arises that; after achieving high ranking in the ICC, will Pakistan perform the same in England too? We all know that the series between Pakistan and England are just around the corner and we all are hoping that Pakistan performs well in those series, once again to restore their name in the Cricket World.

The series are scheduled to begin on Thursday on July 14^th 2016 in England. They will commence after two friendly matches of Pakistan against Somerset and Sussex teams. These are the cricket schedules which were announced by ECB and PCB. The tour is scheduled for two whole months in the summer of 2016. The match schedule includes ten matches in total which consists of four matches of Test Series, five matches of ODI Series and one match of T20. If we look into the matches which were played last year between Pakistan and England; three matches were drawn, one was tied, and three were won by Pakistan and seven were won by England.

Least to say that, the performance of Pakistan was not below average, however; they need to pick up the pace and perform better in order to win more matches this summer against England. To put in into a nutshell, an average performance cannot lead towards victory. The question still remains that if Pakistan ranking in ICC was good, will it perform the same in England? This question does not have clear cut answer, it can also be clearly judged after the first match. However, by the looks of our cricket team, we can say that they are performing well and are going to do better in the series if they stay consistent with the performance.

Source: Fantasy Cricket Pakistan.