By K. Sudhir Kumar

A look back at the Pakistan cricket team from the 1970s through the early 2000s evokes a deep sense of nostalgia. This was a team that, until the late 1990s, was widely considered superior to India, only beginning to lose momentum afterward.

Few teams in world cricket ever generated as much excitement—and unpredictability—as Pakistan did during this era. I first became fascinated with the sport in the early seventies. Although India and Pakistan weren’t playing each other at the time, I was familiar with the Pakistan side, captained by Intikhab Alam. Mohsin Khan later replaced him, and then Mushtaq Mohammad, one of the five renowned Mohammad brothers. When cricketing relations resumed with India in 1978, Pakistan won the first series, only to be defeated in the subsequ

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