Winning a Test match on foreign soil is a tough challenge for any team, but when it comes to playing a Test match at home, every team wants to take full advantage of the home conditions and register victory after victory. But the opposite seems to be happening with our neighboring country Pakistan. Pakistan has been yearning to win a Test match at home for the last three years. Yes, it has been 1294 days now since they have tasted victory at home. This is disappointing for any team.
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Pakistan’s latest defeat at home was at the hands of Bangladesh in the Rawalpindi Test. On the lifeless pitch of Rawalpindi, the host team came out with four fast bowlers. Pakistan declared the first innings at 448 runs, after which Bangladesh scored 565 runs and gained a lead of 117 runs. On the fifth day, Pakistan had 9 wickets in hand and there were full chances of the match being drawn. But due to the poor batting of the host team, the entire team collapsed at 146 runs in the second innings and Bangladesh won by scoring 30 runs in the second innings.
Pakistan won its last Test match at home against South Africa on 4 February 2021. After this, the team lost the three-Test series against Australia 1-0, while England defeated Pakistan 3-0 in the same Test series at home.
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After losing the series to Australia and England, Pakistan faced New Zealand. This two-match series also did not result in any result as both the matches were drawn.
Now the team is playing this fourth series, in which the team had to face defeat in the first match. The second and last match of the series is to be played on this ground from August 30, now it remains to be seen what kind of pitch PCB prepares.
If we talk about the teams in world cricket who are yearning for a win at home for the longest time then Pakistan is on the second spot after Zimbabwe.
Zimbabwe has not won any Test match at home in the last 11 years. It has been 4,002 days since they last won by taking advantage of home conditions. During this period, the team played 14 Test matches. On the other hand, Pakistan has played 9 Test matches at home in the last 3 years, in which they have not won a single match.