Waqar's stats upto 30/6/1996
Overall stats:
200 wickets in 38 test-matches at an average of 20.61 and strike-rate 38.6 (19 five-for's and 4 ten-for's)
Series wise:
India in Pakistan, 1989/90 [Series]
- 2 58 237 6 4/80 4/91 39.50 4.08 58.0 0 0
Pakistan in Australia, 1989/90 [Series]
Aus 3 83 224 4 2/66 3/108 56.00 2.69 124.5 0 0
New Zealand in Pakistan, 1990/91 [Series]
Pak 3 144.4 315 29 7/76 12/130 10.86 2.17 29.9 3 2
West Indies in Pakistan, 1990/91 [Series]
- 3 89 296 16 5/46 9/120 18.50 3.32 33.3 2 0
Sri Lanka in Pakistan, 1991/92 [Series]
Pak 3 83.3 279 16 5/65 9/152 17.43 3.34 31.3 2 0
Pakistan in England, 1992 [Series]
Pak 5 166 557 22 5/52 7/131 25.31 3.35 45.2 3 0
Pakistan in New Zealand, 1992/93 [Series]
Pak 1 41.3 81 9 5/22 9/81 9.00 1.95 27.6 1 0
Pakistan in West Indies, 1992/93 [Series]
WI 3 98.5 384 19 5/104 9/127 20.21 3.88 31.2 1 0
Zimbabwe in Pakistan, 1993/94 [Series]
Pak 3 130.4 373 27 7/91 13/135 13.81 2.85 29.0 4 1
Pakistan in New Zealand, 1993/94 [Series]
Pak 3 118.2 405 18 6/78 7/162 22.50 3.42 39.4 1 0
Pakistan in Sri Lanka, 1994 [Series]
Pak 2 55 231 14 6/34 11/119 16.50 4.20 23.5 2 1
Australia in Pakistan, 1994/95 [Series]
Pak 2 74.2 258 10 4/69 7/144 25.80 3.47 44.6 0 0
Sri Lanka in Pakistan, 1995/96 [Series]
SL 1 20 86 1 1/47 1/86 86.00 4.30 120.0 0 0
Pakistan in Australia, 1995/96 [Series]
Aus 3 84 263 8 3/15 3/41 32.87 3.13 63.0 0 0
Pakistan in New Zealand, 1995/96 [Series]
Pak 1 42 133 1 1/73 1/133 133.00 3.16 252.0 0 0
It was around that tour to Australia that problems really started kicking in.
Anyway, the only country against whom he failed to excell during that period was Australia - hardly the best team in the world at that moment.
Of course, statistics should always be taken with a table-full of salts. To equate Zimbabwe's then batting line-up with their current one, or bangladesh's for that matter, is a grave insult to the likes of Alistair Campbell, Houghton, the flower brothers and Guy Whital.