Cricket , however , is the most popular game across the country . The country has had an array of success in the sport over the years , and has the distinct achievement of having won each of the major ICC international cricket tournaments : ICC Cricket World Cup , ICC World Twenty20 , and ICC Champions Trophy ; as well as the ICC Test Championship . The cricket team ( known as '' Shaheen '' ) won the Cricket World Cup held in 1992 ; it was runner-up once , in 1999 . Pakistan was runner-up in the inaugural World Twenty20 ( 2007 ) in South Africa and won the World Twenty20 in England in 2009 . In March 2009 , militants attacked the touring Sri Lankan cricket team , after which no international cricket was played in Pakistan until May 2015 , when the Zimbabwean team agreed to a tour . Pakistan also won the 2017 ICC Champions Trophy by defeating arch-rivals India in the final
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