Pakistan vs Zimbabwe Head to Head: Matches, Stats and Players

Pakistan vs Zimbabwe Timeline: How the Record Stacks Up

One-day cricket has been almost one-way. Pakistan have 30 wins from 36, and Zimbabwe only three, while one game was tied and 2 ended with no result. That tie, at Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium on 3 Nov 2020, ended with Zimbabwe winning the super over. Their latest ODI success was an 80-run DLS result in Bulawayo on 24 Nov 2024, and Pakistan answered by taking the next two.

All 5 Tests were staged in Zimbabwe, and Pakistan won four. Zimbabwe’s single success came at Harare on 10 Sep 2013 by 24 runs, only days after a 221-run Pakistan win at the same ground.

The T20I count is 19-3. Zimbabwe’s three were spread across Harare in Apr 2021, Perth Stadium in Oct 2022 and Bulawayo in Dec 2024, by margins of 19 runs, 1 run and 2 wickets. The Harare Sports Club is this fixture’s home base, 23 games with Pakistan on 19 wins.

Players Who Shape the Pakistan vs Zimbabwe Stats

Fakhar Zaman (Pakistan) played the innings everyone remembers: an unbeaten 210 from 156 deliveries at Bulawayo in Jul 2018. Pakistan finished on 399/1 and won by 244 runs, the widest ODI margin between these sides. Fakhar’s 517 ODI runs came from just 6 innings, while Imam-ul-Haq (Pakistan) struck 3 centuries in 8.

A Zimbabwean, BRM Taylor, sits first in the ODI run table with 776 at 43.11. Mohammad Hafeez (Pakistan) follows on 714 at 59.50; he also holds the award record with 5 player of the match prizes and took 14 T20I wickets at a miserly 7.64.

Younis Khan (Pakistan) averaged 102.75 for his 411 Test runs, and Abid Ali (Pakistan) produced the best Test score, 215 not out at Harare in May 2021. Saeed Ajmal (Pakistan) claimed 20 Test wickets, among them 7/95. Most eye-catching of all is Sufiyan Muqeem’s 5/3 from 2.4 overs on 3 Dec 2024, which sent Zimbabwe tumbling to 57.

Batting First, the Toss and the Lowest Totals

Setting a target has served teams better. Nineteen ODIs went to the side batting first and 14 to the chaser, around a typical opening score of 255. T20Is lean the same way, 13 against 9, with first innings averaging 151. Winning the toss has been oddly unhelpful: only 13 of the 33 decided ODIs and 10 of the 22 T20Is went to the side that called right.

Bulawayo has seen Zimbabwe’s two lowest scores, 67 in a Jul 2018 ODI and 57 in a Dec 2024 T20I. Pakistan’s worst is 99 in a T20I at Harare on 23 Apr 2021, one of the rare days Zimbabwe beat them in that format. Every Pakistan opponent is covered on the Pakistan team records, while Zimbabwe’s results against another Asian side appear under India vs Zimbabwe.