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Pakistan Victories in Test Cricket Arshad Chughtai - 5 July 2001
In Pakistan's 49 years of Test Cricket history Pakistan has won 79 test matches out of 278 played to date. 43 of these victories have been at home while 35 have been away on opponent's grounds and one at the neutral ground of Dhaka during the inaugural Asian-Test-Championship in 1998-99. 19 of Pakistan's victories have been achieved against New Zealand, 13 against Sri Lanka, 11 against Australia, 10 each against the West Indies and England, 9 against India, 6 against Zimbabwe, and only one against South Africa. In terms of margin of victory 23 have been recorded by an innings, One over 300 runs, four over 200 runs, eight, six, seven and three by 10, 9, 8 and 7 wickets respectively. The remaining are by different margin of runs and wickets. The National Stadium, Karachi has the unique distinction for bringing Pakistan the largest victory by an innings and 188 runs against Australia in 1988-89 and also to snatch the narrowest victory for them, incidentally against the same rivals, by one-wicket in 1994-95 series. Below is the breakup of Pakistan's 78 victories against each opponent in chronological order:
Victories Against Each Opponent
England:
New Zealand:
Australia:
West Indies:
Sri Lanka:
Zimbabwe:
South Africa:
Summary of victories:
Victory milestones
Victories - By margin
Largest Margin of Victory
Margin Wise Victory - Highlights - 23 of Pakistan’s victories were by an innings, 33 by different number of wickets and 23 again by margin of runs - Four of the innings victories were by an innings plus 150 runs or more (v Australia at Karachi in 1988-89, v Sri Lanka at Dhaka in 1998-99, v Sri Lanka at Galle in 1999-2000 and v New Zealand at Dunedin in 1972-73) - Two of the victories were by an innings and 100 to 149 runs (v India at Hyderabad (Pk) in 1982-83 and v Sri Lanka at Lahore in 1981-82). - Five (5) of the victories were by an innings and 50 to 99 runs and twelve by an innings and 1 to 49 runs - Five of the largest victories were recorded by wide margin of runs (By 301 runs v Sri Lanka at Colombo in 1994, By 299 runs v New Zealand at Auckland in 2000-2001, By 266 runs v West Indies at Port of Spain in 1976-77, By 222 runs v Sri Lanka at Karachi in 1999-2000 and By 204 runs v Sri Lanka at Karachi in 1981-82) - Pakistan’s narrowest victory was recorded by one wicket at Karachi v Australia in 1994-95 Victories by venue
Venue wise victory - Highlights - 43 out of 79 victories have been recorded on home grounds while 35 were achieved on opponent’s grounds and one victory was achieved at the neutral ground of Dhaka - Most (18) victories on one home ground were recorded at Karachi. Other than Karachi Pakistan had won 8 Test matches at Lahore, 6 at Faisalabad, 4 at Rawalpindi, 3 at Hyderabad (Pk) and 2 at Peshawar and one each at Dacca and Sialkot - Out side Pakistan the most number (3) victories so far were recorded at The Oval, Lords and two each at Christchurch, Auckland, Sydney, Melbourne, Port of Spain, Colombo, Kandy and Harare. A solitary Test victory each was recorded at Lucknow, Bangalore, Chennai, Kolkata, Old Trafford, Leeds, Dunedin Hamilton, Wellington, George Town, Galle, Bulawayo and Durban © CricInfo Limited
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