Pakistan captain Shaheen Shah Afridi (left) shakes hand with Australia’s Josh Inglis on the Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium in Rawalpindi on Could 30, 2026. — X/@TheRealPCB
Pakistan’s opening match of the three-match house ODI collection towards Australia on the Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium on Saturday marked their 1,000th ODI.
The Inexperienced Shirts, who performed their maiden ODI towards New Zealand in Christchurch in 1973, have to this point performed 999 ODI matches, out of which they received 527 and misplaced 442. 9 matches had been tied, whereas 21 fixtures ended with no outcome.
Since their debut ODI look, Pakistan achieved a number of ground-breaking feats within the format, the spotlight of which had been their ICC Males’s Cricket World Cup glory in 1992 and the ICC Males’s Champions Trophy triumph in 2017, for which they crushed arch-rivals India by 180 runs within the blockbuster remaining.
For the unversed, with their house collection opener, Pakistan will develop into solely the third crew to function in 1000 ODIs, becoming a member of Australia and India.
Notably, India high the checklist of essentially the most ODI appearances with 1075 matches, carefully adopted by Australia, who’ve featured in 1019 video games.
On the toss for the historic fixture, Australia captain Josh Inglis introduced Pakistan counterpart Shaheen Shah Afridi with a commemorative memento – a bat with a bail and three bails hooked up on high of it, referring to Pakistan’s a thousandth ODI match.
Pakistan captain Afridi termed representing Pakistan within the landmark fixture “a big achievement” earlier than sharing that the crew would get pleasure from and push to win it.
“It is a special occasion for Pakistan. It’s a happy thing that when Pakistanis represent in ODI, it is a big achievement. So I think it is a special moment for the whole team and we will enjoy it and push for it,” Shaheen mentioned after successful the toss and electing to subject first towards Australia.
