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Seldom, does a team evoke so many different emotions and reactions from its fans, critiques, analysts and cricket pundits. Unbeatable on their day, mesmerising the opposition and haplessly poor on the other, collapsing like 9 pins - that is the beautiful and unpredictable nature of the Pakistan cricket team! It is this 'unpredictable nature' that they have used to their advantage in the newest format of the game. They have the best record in T20Is history in terms of matches won (38 wins in 64 matches) and are only marginally second to South Africa in the win-loss ratio (1.58 as compared to South Africa's 1.68). When extending the above to World T20 encounters, they still have the maximum wins (16 out of 26 matches) along with Sri Lanka and are second only to them in the win-loss ratio (1.77 as compared to 2.28). Pakistan has been the most dominant team in World T20 history having made it to the semi-finals stage on all 4 occasions since the tournament's inception in 2007. They lost to India in the final of the inaugural tournament and were the champions in the next edition in England beating Sri-Lanka in the final. They made the semis What makes Pakistan such a destructive and consistently dominating team in T20 internationals?Inherent Nature of their cricket