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5 unusual facts about Pakistan national cricket team


Ian Harvey

He participated in their first group game of the tournament against Pakistan.

Mazhar Majeed

On 28 August 2010, The English tabloid News of the World published a story with additional video of their undercover reporters offering Majeed £150,000 ($232,665) for information on the ongoing 4th Test Match between England and Pakistan.

Pakistani cricket team in Australia in 2002

The Pakistan national cricket team toured Australia in June 2002, well outside the normal Australian cricket season.

Pritish Dass

Dass first appeared for East Pakistan in a match played against the Pakistan national cricket team during the 1952–53 season.

Ynysangharad Park

Glamorgan played 43 first-class matches at the ground between 1926 and 1996, playing their final first-class match there against the Pakistanis during their tour of England.


Chappell–Ganguly controversy

However, John Wright's tenure had also seen India's rise to the finals of the 2003 Cricket World Cup and its first victories against Pakistan on Pakistani soil in both the three-match Test series and the Samsung Cup five-match ODI series.

Christopher Chappell

Christopher James David Chappell (born 17 July 1955 in Toronto) is Canadian former cricketer: a right-handed batsman who opened the batting for the Canadian team in their first ever One Day International, played against Pakistan at the 1979 World Cup, and had two further ODI appearances, both in the same tournament.

Dan Kiesel

Dan Kiesel (born 1938) is an Israeli-born sports physiotherapist and osteopath who has worked as a trainer and physiotherapist for the national cricket teams of many countries, most notably Sri Lanka and Pakistan.

Eddie Illingworth

In the same fourteenth over, Illingworth had dismissed former Pakistani Test batsman Duncan Sharpe and Australian Test wicket-keeper Barry Jarman from the first and fourth deliveries respectively.

Graham Yallop

He scored an elegant 172 against Pakistan at Faisalabad yet found himself on the outer two Tests afterwards.

ICC World Twenty20

This tournament was won by the previous runners-up Pakistan who defeated Sri Lanka by 8 wickets in the final at Lord's, London.

Mark Boucher

He reached the record originally when he overtook the former Australian wicketkeeper Ian Healy in the first test of the Bank Alfalah Test Series versus Pakistan in Karachi on 3 October 2007 when he stumped Umar Gul off the bowling of Paul Harris.

Sheikh Zayed Cricket Stadium

As of 2009, many international series are held here, since Pakistan is not able to host any more matches at home due to the security aftermath of the 2009 attack on the Sri Lanka national cricket team.

United Services Recreation Ground

A first-class match in 1971 between Hampshire and the touring Pakistanis saw protests by Bangladeshis protesting Pakistani actions in the Bangladesh Liberation War.


see also

Croydon Athletic F.C.

The club was bought in 2008 by Mazhar Majeed, a UK-based property developer and agent for members of the Pakistan national cricket team.