ICC World Cup 2023: Pakistan's ODI World Cup History, Previous Performances and Key Stats

ICC World Cup 2023: The Pakistan men's cricket team has been ever-present in the ICC ODI World Cup since it's inception in 1975, winning the coveted title once so far, and will be attempting to land their second title in the upcoming show-piece tournament.

Pakistan led by Babar Azam will battle nine other teams, including two time champions and hosts India, record champions Australia and former winners England and Sri Lanka in the upcoming edition of the 50-over World Cup.

Pakistan's ODI World Cup History

In the 12 editions held so far, Pakistan has gone all the way to lift the title only once in 1992, while they also went close in 1999, when they finished runners up. The Pakistan team has also reached the semifinal or quarterfinal stage in six other editions.

Over the 12 editions, we have seen several top performers for Pakistan like Imran Khan, Saeed Anwar, Wasim Akram, Shahid Afridi, Waqar Younis, Inzamam Ul Haq, Misbah Ul Haq and Shoaib Akhtar among others.

Ahead of the ICC ODI World Cup 2023, here we take a look at Pakistan's ODI World Cup history, previous performances and the key stats from the past editions of the show-piece tournament:

Pakistan's Previous ODI World Cup Previous Performances and Key Stats

Edition	Year	Host Nation(s)	Captain	Finish	Most Runs	Most Wickets
1	1975	England	Asif Iqbal	Group Stage	Majid Khan (209 runs)	Imran Khan, Sarfaraz Nawaz & Naseer Malik (5 wickets)
2	1979	England	Asif Iqbal	Semifinal	Majid Khan (150 runs)	Asif Iqbal (9 wickets)
3	1983	England & Wales	Imran Khan	Semifinal	Zaheer Abbas (313 runs)	Abdul Qadir (12 wickets)
4	1987	India & Pakistan	Imran Khan	Semifinal	Ramiz Raja (349 runs)	Imran Khan (17 wickets)
5	1992	Australia & New Zealand	Imran Khan	Champions	Javed Miandad (437 runs)	Wasim Akram (18 wickets)
6	1996	India, Sri Lanka & Pakistan	Wasim Akram	Quarterfinal	Saeed Anwar (329 runs)	Waqar Younis (13 wickets)
7	1999	England & Wales	Wasim Akram	Runner Up	Saeed Anwar (368 runs)	Saqlain Mushtaq (17 wickets)
8	2003	South Africa, Zimbabwe & Kenya	Waqar Younis	Group Stage	Saeed Anwar (218 runs)	Wasim Akram (12 wickets)
9	2007	West Indies	Inzamam-ul-Haq	Group Stage	Imran Nazir (190 runs)	Iftikhar Anjum (5 wickets)
10	2011	India, Sri Lanka & Bangladesh	Shahid Afridi	Semifinal	Misbah Ul Haq (248 runs)	Shahid Afridi (21 wickets)
11	2015	Australia & New Zealand	Misbah Ul Haq	Quarterfinal	Misbah Ul Haq (350 runs)	Wahab Riaz (16 wickets)
12	2019	England & Wales	Sarfaraz Ahmed	Group Stage	Babar Azam (474 runs)	Mohammad Amir (17 wickets)