What do you consider Pakistan's greatest achievement in the 90's besides the WC ?

[Shoaib Akhtar's Fan]

Is it the back to back series victories against Eng in there own backyard ?

The Asian Test Championship Victory ?

Two Sahara Cup wins against arch rivals India ?

3-0 Trashing of the Windies in 1997 ?

World Series win in Aus in early 1997 ?

Or add your own..

[emclub]

All of them that you have listed especially VB Series win in Australia 1997 and the Whitewashing of the Windies again in 97 then comes Asian Test Championship win in 99.........


Is it a coincidence all these major wins came under Wasim Bhai, nah didnt think so, What a Legend

[Ashraful_Rox]

Debut of 29 Dec 1997

[WithLoveFromCanada]

That Calcutta test ...nothing can come close to it...that ball of century that silent a country of billions...meh

[ethan hunt]

agree with all the victories u stated and also wud like to add the 92 and 96 demolition of the poms in england in test matches ....... the two Ws at the peak of their powers

[emclub]

Originally Posted by ethan hunt agree with all the victories u stated and also wud like to add the 92 and 96 demolition of the poms in england in a test matches ....... the two Ws at the peak of their powers

yes not bad not bad at all, Glory days

[W63L35]

In 1990s... Pakistan had the best W/L ratio in away test matches;

[ethan hunt]

with respect to the victories against the indians they were obviously great but to b honest they never had a chance , barring the little guy who got pwned by akhtar in the asian test championship match the indian team of the time was no better than a local club team frm lahore we had so much talent back than heck even a guy like mohammad akram was 10 times better than prasad and he cudnt get into the pak side of the time .
the victories u mentioned i dont think ill ever forget the world series win in australia , and those two missiles in culcutta that announced the arrival of my fav player

[ethan hunt]

Originally Posted by W63L35 In 1990s... Pakistan had the best W/L ratio in away test matches;

wow just wow ...... those were the days .......... too bad i was too yonug for the most part, got into cricket in the latter part of the 90s but still what a team we had in those days
haha always knew zimbabwe were good in the 90s but , they were better than india wow

[emclub]

Originally Posted by W63L35 In 1990s... Pakistan had the best W/L ratio in away test matches;

Now thats what I am talkin about, Brilliant stat

[Obeid]

Zimbabwe had a better W/L ratio than India

[The_Cricket_Devil]

The 1994 Karachi test to beat Australia or the Chennai test against India spring to mind

[kkmix]

Calcutta test, when the huge crowd was put to silent and you could hear the pin drop.

[Pakhtoon_Rules]

Beating England at home in test matches.

[Shoaib Akhtar's Fan]

Looking back at the 90's, I have a major regret that we had a chance to win two back to back test series against South Africa within a very short span but we blew away both opportunities.

I remember watching both the test series very eagerly as a 8/9 year old. The first series was at home in late 1997, ( when Azhar Mahmood scored a century on debut ) and after two drawn matches, Pakistan had a great chance to win the series chasing just 130 or 140 odd , I think but thanks to a charecteristic batting collapse we couldn't and hence lost the series.

Then was the away test series in Feb/March 1998, IIRC. The first match was a draw and Pakistan won the second test. Azhar scored another 100, Shoaib took his maiden 5-fer ( what a performance it was, youtube it all you Akhtar fans ) and Mushtaq took quite a few wickets in this match too. Heading into the third match, we had a healthy 1-0 lead but South Africa but Fanie De Villiers completely blew us away in the second innings. So , a series we should have won ended in a draw.

[Adeel Sabih]

Chennai Test 1999

[Shoaib Akhtar's Fan]

Originally Posted by ethan hunt agree with all the victories u stated and also wud like to add the 92 and 96 demolition of the poms in england in test matches ....... the two Ws at the peak of their powers

Yes, I stated those wins in my post.

[Amjid Javed]

Originally Posted by Shoaib Akhtar's Fan Is it the back to back series victories against Eng in there own backyard ? The Asian Test Championship Victory ? Two Sahara Cup wins against arch rivals India ? 3-0 Trashing of the Windies in 1997 ? World Series win in Aus in early 1997 ? Or add your own..

Trashing england in england in 1992 and 1996 in test series

Drawing 1-1 away to South Africa in very tough series.

Also winning ODI series in Australia (Beating W.I 2-0 in finals) with a young and talented team.

[Romali_rotti]

Originally Posted by W63L35 In 1990s... Pakistan had the best W/L ratio in away test matches;

Thats pretty impressive by Pak, lol at India down at the last place really showed how bad of a team we were during that time barring ofcourse 1 phenominal player...

[Blitz]

Originally Posted by Romali_rotti Thats pretty impressive by Pak, lol at India down at the last place really showed how bad of a team we were during that time barring ofcourse 1 phenominal player...

Harsh on Ganguly, Dravid, Kumble, Laxman, Srinath, Azhar.

[Justcrazy]

Those were the dayssssssssss

[Romali_rotti]

Originally Posted by Blitz Harsh on Ganguly, Dravid, Kumble, Laxman, Srinath, Azhar.

Ganguly, Dravid & Laxman career's came on after 2000.... Kumble was good yes......

[what ho]

Not sure about greatest but the most amazing achievement in the 90s was their inability, with the superb team (especially the bowling) they had, to become the best team in the world.

[what ho]

Originally Posted by Romali_rotti Ganguly, Dravid & Laxman career's came on after 2000.... Kumble was good yes......

Dravid did better in the 00s but his average in the 90s was still just marginally below 50. In the case of Ganguly, his performance in the 90s seemed to be better than his performances in the noughties. Regarding Laxman, spot on.

[saeed-sohail]

Karachi test 94.
Hamilton 93.
Durban 98.
Lords 92.
Sydney 95.

[DeadlyVenom]

Originally Posted by what ho Not sure about greatest but the most amazing achievement in the 90s was their inability, with the superb team (especially the bowling) they had, to become the best team in the world.

Agreed. That 1999 world cup Final still haunts me and is probably my earliest cricket memory.

Was very young during the 90's so have only heard stories and read reports but our team seemed fantastic.

1999 world cup got me into cricket and we should have won.

[Romali_rotti]

Originally Posted by what ho Dravid did better in the 00s but his average in the 90s was still just marginally below 50. In the case of Ganguly, his performance in the 90s seemed to be better than his performances in the noughties. Regarding Laxman, spot on.

Dravid may have had a good avg in the 90's but the plain fact was he had a horrible record vs Aus and Wasim & Co made him look like a child in 98... Higher the quality of bowlers Dravid faced the worst he performed in the 90's...

[what ho]

Originally Posted by Romali_rotti Dravid may have had a good avg in the 90's but the plain fact was he had a horrible record vs Aus and Wasim & Co made him look like a child in 98... Higher the quality of bowlers Dravid faced the worst he performed in the 90's...

Really? Sounds like a massive generalisation to me. Didn't he do well against Ambrose and Walsh and Bishop and Rose in the Windies - think he averaged in the 70s? And against a rampaging Donald in Sith Effrica - he averaged 55?

[Romali_rotti]

Originally Posted by what ho Didn't he do well against Ambrose and Walsh and Bishop and Rose in the Windies - think he averaged in the 70s? And against a rampaging Donald in Sith Effrica - he averaged 55?

News to me, if you can provide the stats...

[what ho]

http://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/eng...ng;view=series

[SG]

Yep, Dravid did very well in those 2 series. In SA however, he was excellent (148 & 81) in the 3rd test at Jo'burg not much hot in the other 2.

Aus though was entirely different kettle of fish altogether. He was crap against them till he played THAT innings at Eden Gardens.

[Romali_rotti]

Originally Posted by what ho http://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/eng...ng;view=series

yes credit to him for doing well against Ambrose & co, however after his debut series in SA, he has been quite poor against them

[liaqat]

pak through out the 90's were awsome the 1999 world cup was great baring some the final and bangladesh,,,, through out the 90's pak had the team to beat anyone, but Pak also had a captain called wasim who was known for match fixing ..

many series away were drawn or lost because of infighting,,, s/a 1998 come to mind, nz in 2000, and many other series,,