Pakistan's all-time Cricket World Cup XI

If the all-time XI of each country played the ICC World Cup, it would be a sight for the gods. Pakistan could be one of the frontrunners in such a tournament, being a treasure-trove in all three departments – pace, spin and elegant batting.An all-time World Cup XI for Pakistan would mostly feature members of the great ‘92 winning team, although there are a few others who would make it in spite of being unlucky enough not to have ever won the cup. Misbah-ul-Haq, Shahid Afridi, Umar Gul, Saeed Ajmal, Mushtaq Ahmed and Aaqib Javed, meanwhile, miss out by a whisker. Here is Pakistan’s all-time XI:

#1 Saeed Anwar

Pakistan’s best batsman without ever having won the World Cup, Saeed Anwar is next only to Javed Miandad in terms of runs scored in the tournament. That is not all. He is one of only two opening batsmen to have scored more than 500 runs for Pakistan in World Cups, the other being Rameez Raja. 

Anwar, who scored 915 runs at an average of almost 54, also had an impressive strike-rate pushing 80 and scored 3 centuries from his 21 matches spanning three different World Cups.