TOP 10 PAKISTANI CRICKETERS OF ALL TIME, IS BABAR AZAM ONE OF THE GREATEST EVER FROM PAKISTAN?

TOP 10 PAKISTANI CRICKETERS OF ALL TIME:

Pakistan has produced many of the greatest cricketers of all time, they have a rich cricket history of more than 70 years since they got test status in 1950. Pakistan team has also enjoyed great success in international cricket as they have won all the major trophies like World Cup, T20 World Cup, Champions Trophy, and Asia Cup, etc.

The reason for this success are the outstanding cricketers who represented Pakistan Team, here is the list of the Top 10 all-time great cricketers from Pakistan which is as follows;

IMRAN KHAN:

Whenever we talk about greatest cricketers of all time, the first name that pops out is ‘’ IMRAN KHAN ‘’ who is not only the greatest but also the most successful cricketer from Pakistan, as an all-rounder Imran Khan has taken more than 500 international wickets as well as 7000 international runs for his country. The major reason for his name at the top is that is also the Pakistani captain who lifted the ICC Cricket World Cup in 1992 against all the odds. He was also elected as the Prime Minister of Pakistan in 2018 elections.

WASIM AKRAM:

Wasim Akram is one of the greatest ever fast bowler who played the game, also served as the captain of Pakistan Cricket Team, he is also known as ‘’ SWING KA SULTAN ‘’ because his swing was the most difficult thing for any batsman to face and which made him special. He was a night-mare for batters in his international career where he got around 900 international wickets, he has taken 500+ wickets in ODI cricket during his career.

INZAMAN UL HAQ:

Inzamam-Ul-Haq is also added to this list as he is one of the most prolific run scorer for the Pakistan Cricket Team during his career and is still regarded as the greatest ever batsman produced by Pakistan. He is Pakistan’s leading runs scorer in International cricket with 20,000+ runs to his name and is the only Pakistani batsman to do so. Inzamam-Ul-Haq has also scored more than 10,000 runs in ODI cricket for Pakistan.

WAQAR YOUNIS:

Another Pakistani cricketer Waqar Younis, who was a right-arm pace bowler also known as the ‘’ TOE CRUSHER ‘’ during his peak time of career. He also served Pakistan as captain as well as head-coach after his retirement. He took around 700 wickets in international cricket as a whole in both ODI as well as TEST cricket for Pakistan and is regarded as a Top Pakistani cricketer of all-time.

YOUNIS KHAN:

Younis Khan is Pakistan’s second highest runs scorer of all-time, he is also named among the greats of the game. Younis Khan scored around 18,000 international runs in his career with 41 centuries in international cricket to his name, no Pakistani cricketer has scored more centuries than Younis Khan. He also served as the batting coach of the Pakistan cricket team.

MUHAMMAD YOUSAF:

Muhammad Yousaf is also a former Pakistani cricketer, he was well known and appreciated for his classy cover drives, he is Pakistan’s third highest runs scorer of all-time and has scored more than 17,000 runs in his career as a batsman for the Pakistan team.

JAVED MIANDAD:

Javed Miandad is a former Pakistani cricketer who also served as the coach for Pakistan team. Javed Miandad was regarded as a savior for Pakistan team as he scored tons of runs in his career for Pakistan. Javed Miandad ended up his career with more than 16,000 international runs which speaks up for his class and consistency.

MISBAH UL HAQ:

Former captain and coach of the National Pakistan cricket team, ‘’ MISBAH UL HAQ ‘’ is a cricketer from Pakistan who retired just recently from international cricket but not before scoring more than 11,000 runs in his career and stood firm in many hard times for Pakistan cricket team. He was the captain of Pakistan team when we were ranked as #1 TEST team in the world. Misbah-Ul-Haq also served as the Chief-Selector as well as the Head-Coach of Pakistan cricket team.

SHAHID AFRIDI:

Another all-rounder in this list, Shahid Khan Afridi who is the most loved Pakistani cricketer also known as ‘’ BOOM BOOM ‘’ in his playing days. Shahid Afridi also served as the captain of the Pakistan team but as a player had so much success in his career where he helped Pakistan won the ICC T20 World Cup 2009 with his all-round abilities and was regarded as a ‘’ Match Winner ‘’ who can turn the game on his own, even though he was a lower order batsman still he scored more than 11,000 international runs along with his more than 500 wickets for Pakistan. He was one of the greatest crowd puller of all time.

BABAR AZAM:

Babar Azam is definitely the top cricketer of the Pakistan team since his debut and in only 6 years of his debut he is named as one of the greatest Pakistani batsman ever produced by Pakistan. Babar Azam ranked #1 in both ODi cricket as well as in T20 cricket and ruled ICC rankings in his career. In his short career, he is also in the list of the top 10 players with most runs for Pakistan team.

Babar Azam also served as the captain of the Pakistan team in all-formats of the game and is the most successful T20i captain from Pakistan, under his captaincy Pakistan team played Semi-Final as well as Final of the ICC World Cup of 2021 and 2022 respectively which shows us his captaincy skills as well.

• THESE ARE JUST SOME OF THOSE NAMES WHO HELPED PAKISTAN CRICKET BLOSSOM WITH THEIR ABILITIES, THERE ARE MANY OTHER CRICKETERS LIKE ZAHEER ABBAS, HANIF MUHAMMAD, ABDUL QADIR, UMAR GULL, SARFARAZ AHMED, AZHAR ALI, MUHAMMAD HAFEEZ , ETC WHO PLAYED WITH GRACE AND ALWAYS KEPT THEIR COUNTRY ON TOP WHICH HELPED THEM WINNING MANY MATCHES FOR THEIR COUNTRY. EVERY CRICKETER WHO WORE THIS GREEN JERSEY HAS DONE MANY GOOD THINGS TO PAKISTAN CRICKET BUT WE CANT MENTION ALL SO HERE WAS THE TOP 10 CRICKETERS OF ALL TIME FROM PAKISTAN.