Pakistan did not reach semi final in 1975 edition. It was West Indies and Australia eventual finalist from Pakistan's pool who advanced to semi final stage

Out of all world cup skippers amongst the green-shirts, Imran Khan was the best followed by Asif Iqbal and Inzammam-ul-Haq. Although Wasim Akram had a great chance to emulate the performance, accomplishments and feats of his big mentor Imran Khan but he was too busy doing other things both on and off the field, elaboration on which is beyond the scope, space and design of this short comment.

So much potential being wasted.

Why not appoint a captain who is acceptable to all ... like myself.

Most don't remember but I think 1979 world cup side was the strongest. They lost an almost won game against England that made them face West Indies in Semifinals and they came close to beating the west Indies. 1979 batting lineup was the best batting team that Pakistan ever produced. They could have won the cup but went out due to badluck

I don't know why do we even play this game which has nothing to do with Pakistan. We should play Kabaddi and wrestling. Now these are truly Pakistani sports!

Pakistan will win the world cup if we keep following 15 players: Fawad Alam, Sarfraz Ahmed, Umar Akmal, Asad Shafiq, Ahmad Shezad, Mohd Irfan, Junaid Khan, Zulfiqar Babar,Misbah, Afridi, Younis Khan, Mohd sami, Hamamd Shah, Shah Masood, Abdul Hafeez In each match choose one from Misbah or Younis choose one from Hammad Shah or Abdul Hafeez choose one from Asad Shafiq or Umar Akmal choose one from Mohd Sami or Juniad Khan

Due to lack of consistency nobody is sure about his place in the team except perhaps Fawad Alam.....but he is too inexperienced to lead the team.....I would therefore settle for Ahmed Shehzad......

Great Job ...

@Zaheer Yes this is true. WI and Australia also contested the final. So PAK were in a very strong group from which they were knocked out. Asif Iqbal was a great player and a wonderful human being who I had the privilege of meeting on a few occasions in the late seventies. He did of course lead Pakistan to the semi final in 1979.

In 1975 Pakistan was unlucky to lose the match against West Indies by 1 wicket otherwise they would have qualified for semi final. Asif Iqbal and Imran Khan didn't played in that match. In 1979 in the match against England they collapsed from 27-0 to 34-6 and eventually lost by 14 runs and had to face the mighty West Indies in the semifinal instead of Newzealand.

@Dr. Salaria, Aamir Ahmad inzamam captained in 2007 and it was a disaster.

After 2003 we ran out of true great players to led the team in the prestigious tournament.

Nice article to read and view.

Except Imran Khan Pakistan never managed to get a caption who leads from the front in time of crisis, players like Inzamam Ul Haq was a great gift to our country but he was not a skipper so my point is our PCB thinks if a player plays good total number of matches he become skipper which is completely wrong approach and which hurt our cricket badly because people like Muhammad Yousuf was choose for this job, now we need to give time to a caption who is most relevant to our team with spirit, talent and hard work.

@Dr. Salaria, Aamir Ahmad . Wasim was not a great skipper but quite possibly one of the best players of all time.I would trade the entire Indian team (except Sachin) for one Wasim Akram. re : Pak 2015 campaign : Pakistani cricket seems to be shockingly mismanaged but the raw talent is obvious. Full disclosure- Indian

The best team Pakistan ever had was under the captaincy of Asif Iqbal. After that we kept on loosing good players and the replacements came were of not that caliber ,may be the standards started falling because of our players not taking part in English cricket counties . The only solution I can see is to encourage school to start cricket and by setting up inter school and inter college/ university tournaments ,all such teams as well as games should have govt. financing as well backing . Other wise these half baked players/teams are not going to leave us.

All players gave their 100% in the 1992 world cup and thus won a very deserving victory. A player who is not mentioned in Pakistan cricket much is the fantastic Asif Iqbal a natural cricketer always looking for runs, he had excellent foot work and a perfect cover drive., a powerful hitter of the ball and was also a thorough gentleman who still had a lot of cricket left in him but was ignored by the board after Pakistan lost the series to India in India under his captaincy it was not just his fault the whole team performed badly.But that was the end of him , he performance for Kent was also above average.

Asif Iqbal was a wonderful and very special cricketer. In his playing days he was one of the most popular and exciting player for Pakistan and Kent. He was a type of cricketer who scored most of his runs against quality bowling and in crisis. He also captained the world XI in the Kerry Packer supertest. The best outfielder Pakistan produced. It is a pity that Pakistan and the world does not produce cricketers like him.

1979 match aginst WI was lost due to poor captainship by stand-in captain Majid Jahangir. Maji didn't save any of Sarfaraz Nawaz overs for the end and instead of giving the bowl to Wasim Raja he gave the last over to Pervez Mir. WI needed 66 runs when the 9th batsman was out. In 1987 it was Saleem Jaffer last oevr which cost Pakistan the match. He gave away 18 runs in his last over and that was the difference. In 1996 the last two overs bowled by Waqar Younus was a disaster. 1n 2003 Pakistan didn't take with them the in-form blwoler Mohammad Sami and Shaoib Malik. Waqar Younus was the captain with wasim Akram not cooperating. In 2007 WC Shahid Afridi was banned for the first two matches which he didn't play and Pakistan lost to ireland. 2011 it was the tuk tuk of Misbah.

@ KP: How can you forget mentioning Dravid in your comment mate. The most selfless, humble, dedicated, gentleman cricketer of our era. I would take him anyday my friend considering the stability woes in our batting line. I would also take Dhoni considering his keeping and batting skills. He can't be no less than the Akmal brothers for sure :)

@Pervez Rasool Well said pervez. We play cricket and our official language is English. Our judiciary, administration and executive are all legacy of colonial system. We have most diverse education system alien to this land and natives.

In the 2007 World Cup,Pakistan may have suffered from the loss of Shoaib and Asif but, the bigger blow was the loss of coach Bob Woolmer. It's a shame that fact wasn't deemed worthy of publication.

Dhandli !!!

Misbah shouldn't even be a team member of Pakistan ODI squad, Shahid Afridi should take over captaincy.

@Zaheer - Pak DID reach the SF in 1975. They lost to WI when they had lost 9 wickets with 66 still needed. Their last pair managed to score those 66 and BEAT Pak. Also Pak is the only team to have reached SF in each of 1975, 1979, 1983, 1987 and 1992 WCs.

I don't know who is behind Misbah tuktuk.

Fawad Alam should be the captain with Sarfraz Ahmed as vice captain and regular keeper. Sami Aslam should given chance in place of Sharjeel Khan.

I hope Misbahwill be replaced by Afridi, there is no place of Misbah in team not as a captain not as a batsman and induct a new talented young player from domestic circle.

Pakistan can still be a good team just get rid of old horses and khatmal bro in all format choose team on merit and the same team will be able to perform better even though if not be world beaters over night but lack of domestic cricket and lack of merit brought this team to this stage that we don't know who is going to lead the team and who will be final selection of players in upcoming WC which is just months away now.

I was a fan of Imran Khan in 1992 and I am a fan today. He brought the biggest sporting hope in Pakistan's history and hopefully he will bring about the biggest political reform in Pakistan's history as well.