Social Media is Celebrating Pakistan Cricket Team’s Rise to ICC’s Top Test Team Ranking

Love em or hate em, its hard to deny that Pakistanis take their cricket team very seriously. It doesn’t matter if you’re a diehard or a casual follower of the gentleman’s game, the Pakistani cricket team has its fair share of ups and downs that we all like to point out.

For all the ups and downs that Pakistan’s cricket team has faced over the years, today a most brilliant miracle has occurred:

Pakistan is now the No.1 test team in ICC rankings, the first time since 1988 when @ImranKhanPTI was the captain. pic.twitter.com/vA5NitPkSO

— Ammara Ahmad ਅਮਾਰਾ ਅਹਿਮਦ (@ammarawrites) August 22, 2016

That’s right. We are now the top ranked test team in the world now, under the able captaincy of Misbah ul Haq. And today, he’ll be presented with the mace of kings:

ICC Test Championship Mace will be presented to Pakistan after #IndvWI series finish.ICC Official confirm.#1 Ranking pic.twitter.com/iPPWt3Edya

— Abdul Ghaffar (@GhaffarDawnNews) August 21, 2016

The number 1 test ranking was ours for the taking, with a little help from the rain:

The achievement is all the more magnificent once you realize the away-from-home factor:

#Pakistan all set to top #ICC #Test ranking, inspite of #Cricket being away from home https://t.co/STHMTsOEzi pic.twitter.com/rUChtBiLbV

— Planet Pakistan (@PlanetPakistan) August 22, 2016

To know how far we’ve come along to this point:

https://twitter.com/NomyPti/status/767594695870541824

Those King Misbah tweets aren’t going away anytime soon:

So Pakistan is #1 in @ICC test ranking. Congrats to the team and specially @captainmisbahpk #proudmoment pic.twitter.com/UvBGo2HcPn

— Riaz J Khan (@riazjkhan) August 22, 2016

Whitewash Eng
Whitewash Aus
Draw 2-2 in Eng
Test #1
India? Too scared to play!
Who's the King of Kings? pic.twitter.com/ob5LQwyHbJ

— Kalim Khan (@Kallerz37) August 22, 2016

 

Some people are even mashing up the development with the ongoing Olympics at Rio:

https://twitter.com/CS_Says/status/767353682870538240

 

And last but not the least, Captain Misbah would like to remind us that there’s really no substitute for hard work:

Misbah "This team deserves number 1 ranking after 6 years of no cricket at home. Playing every game away from Pakistan is really difficult"

— Saj Sadiq (@Saj_PakPassion) August 15, 2016

 

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