Pakistan's Test record since 2022: Exploring home, away and SENA record amid struggles in England

KEY TAKEAWAYS:

Pakistan have won just eight of 31 Tests since March 2022 with their latest loss against England.

They have lost all six of their away Tests in SENA countries in that period.

Pakistan's home record shows only four wins from 17 matches.

Pakistan's Test record since 2022

Pakistan's innings and 103-run capitulation at Headingley was not an isolated disaster but the latest entry in a four-year decline that has stripped the side of its aura in the longest format. Bowled out for 171 and 135 inside three days, they surrendered the opening Test of the series without ever competing.

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The collapse prompted immediate scrutiny of where Pakistan now stand in Test cricket, and the numbers offer little comfort. Since March 2022, a period covering 31 Tests, they have managed just eight victories against 19 defeats.

What makes the picture bleaker still is where those defeats have come. Pakistan have lost series at home to England and Bangladesh, been swept aside in Australia and South Africa, and now find themselves staring at another chastening tour of England.

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Pakistan's overall Test record since 2022

Across 31 Tests since March 2022, Pakistan have won eight, lost 19 and drawn four, a win percentage of just under 26.

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All four of those draws came in a single stretch in 2022, two against Australia and two against New Zealand at home, meaning they have not drawn a Test in more than three years.

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Pakistan's home and away Test record since 2022

Home advantage has all but disappeared. Pakistan have played 17 Tests on home soil in this period and won only four of them, losing nine. Two of those defeats came against Bangladesh in Rawalpindi in 2024, the first Test wins the Tigers had ever recorded against Pakistan.

The away record is marginally better in win terms but worse in consistency, with four wins and 10 defeats from 14 matches and not a single draw. Three of those four away victories came in Sri Lanka, where conditions most closely resemble home.

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Pakistan's SENA record since 2022

The most damning statistic concerns the SENA nations. Pakistan have played six away Tests in South Africa, England, New Zealand and Australia since 2022, and lost every single one of them.

The 2023-24 tour of Australia produced a 3-0 whitewash, with defeats by 360 runs in Perth, 79 runs in Melbourne and eight wickets in Sydney.

South Africa then completed a 2-0 sweep in 2024-25, winning by two wickets at Centurion and by 10 wickets at Newlands. Headingley has now made it six from six.

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Why the numbers point to a structural problem rather than a slump

A four-year sample of 31 Tests is long enough to rule out bad luck. What the figures expose is a side that can no longer defend its own conditions, having won just four home Tests in that span, and which is comprehensively outclassed the moment the ball starts moving laterally with pace and bounce.

The Sri Lanka results tell the story most clearly. Three of Pakistan's four away wins have come on the subcontinent, where their spinners and their batters' methods still translate, while the SENA record reads six defeats from six.

Until the domestic system produces batters equipped to bat long against genuine seam movement, tours like this one will keep ending the way Headingley did, and the second Test at Lord's next week offers little prospect of respite.

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