What Pakistan's win-loss record shows
Cricket is a long-term sport, writes Saad Shafqat in the Dawn , so it is important to contemplate the long view
Akhila Ranganna
25-Feb-2013
Cricket is a long-term sport, writes Saad Shafqat in the Dawn, so it is important to contemplate the long view. The first thing you need for that is an accurate measure of performance, which is provided by the Win-Loss ratio. Pakistan's performance graph is quite revealing.
The unsurprising, yet concerning, revelation from these graphs is that Pakistan’s prowess in international has been eroded during the past decade. The dip is marginal in ODIs, but alarming in Tests. Pakistan has spent the 2000s near the bottom of the Test table, ranked sixth out of eight, ahead of only New Zealand and West Indies.
Akhila Ranganna is assistant editor (Audio) at ESPNcricinfo