A look back on pakistan world cup captions

Asif iqbal had the homour to pakistan first two global encounters consectivly 1975 and 1979.

Imran Khan replaced Iqbal to lead the team at the 1983 event, which was won by India. Imran had two more shots at glory, first in 1987, then in 1992, where he turned a bunch of talented young players into world beaters.

Before Imran left, he had mentored Wasim Akram to be his successor. Akram later moved on to become one of best bowler in the world and was known as "Sultan of Swing". Wasim led Pakistan in WC '96, which was hosted by Pakistan, and the '99 WC, hosted by England. Pakistan failed to defend its title in '96 and suffered a miserable loss to Australia in the final of '99 WC also under Akram's captaincy.

Cricketing experts often cite Wasim Akram and Waqar Younis as the best bowling pair in the history of the game. But just like Akram, Younis too was unable to lead Pakistan to glory when handed the reins before the 2003 World Cup. For the first in the history of the event, Pakistan failed to progress past the first round. 

Inzamam-ul-Haq, the highest run-scorer for Pakistan in ODIs, was arguably its best batsman after the retirement of legendary Javed Miandad. He took charge of a dispersed side which suffered great humiliation at the '03 WC and put a sense of belief into a relatively new team. At the eve of the 2007 WC, Pakistan were left without pacers Shoaib Akhtar and Mohammad Asif and later went onto suffer an embarrassment of being knocked out of the event by Ireland.

Thrown out of the competition in the initial stages for two consecutive times, Pakistan had a point to prove. The WC 2011, jointly hosted by India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, saw a new, energised Pakistan team with allrounder Shahid Afridi as its leader. Although Afridi had a great tournament personally, Pakistan lost to arch rival India in the semi-finals, a defeat most fans blamed on Misbah-ul-Haq, the team's next captain

The 2015 WC is just months away now and with Pakistan's tour of Sri Lanka ending in disaster, it is unclear whether Misbah-ul-Haq will be retained as the skipper for the big event. Most former players have backed Afridi as the top choice to takeover from Misbah.