Babar to Rizwan captained Pakistan this year, but the team only suffered defeats.Image credit source: Matthew Lewis-ICC/ICC via Getty Images
The Pakistan cricket team is the greatest example of the effects of constant reorganization, daily turmoil and lack of unity. The performance of this team has been continuously declining over the past few years, but the year 2024 turned out to be the worst for it. Especially Pakistan, once considered the most powerful team in T20 cricket, has suffered the worst luck this year. With superstars like Babar Azam, Mohammad Rizwan, Shaheen Shah Afridi but these players clashing with each other, Pakistan left even small countries like Maldives, Mongolia and Nepal behind in terms of losing T20 matches this year.
clean sweep in australia
This truth of Pakistan team playing T20 series on Australia tour has come to light after another crushing defeat. Pakistan lost by 7 wickets in the last match of the 3-match T20 series in Hobart. Pakistan, who batted first, scored only 117 runs in this match, which Australia managed in just 11.2 overs. With this, Australia completely eliminated Pakistan by winning all three matches of the series.
Losingest Full Member Team
This defeat in Hobart was the Pakistani team’s 13th defeat in the T20 International this year. With this, Pakistan reached the second place among the teams that lost the most T20 matches in 2024. Here they equaled a team like Oman, which has lost 13 matches. Not only that, this year Pakistan also left behind teams like Mongolia, Myanmar, Maldives (all three lost 12-12), Rwanda and Malaysia (loss 10-10), who have no special identity in the world of cricket. That means Pakistan this year became No. 1 in terms of highest number of losses among full member countries (Test teams).
Not even close to Team India
This year, in the T20 World Cup, the Pakistani team, which was eliminated in the group stage after losing to a new team like the United States, could not win even half of the matches. Pakistan has played a total of 22 T20 matches so far this year, in which they could only win 7, while they lost 13. While 2 matches remained inconclusive. Only Indonesia is ahead of Pakistan, which lost 15 matches this year. Compared to all this, the Indian team lost only 2 matches this year and also won the T20 World Cup. Now Pakistan also has to play a T20 series against Zimbabwe and considering the current situation, it should not be a surprise if Pakistan is defeated there as well.
