By Hamza Junaid Published: May 30, 2019 Tweet Email If put on a scatter plot which ascertained teams’ World Cup readiness, Pakistan and West Indies would be the outliers. After four years of waiting and 27 years of reliving our past glory, now the moment to repeat history is finally here. I lie in my bed, engulfed by the darkness and silence. Sleep should be around the corner but it’s not. I can hear the clock ticking. Each tick is a second closer to the start of Pakistan’s World Cup campaign and that will keep me awake for the rest of the night. I am one of ‘those’ fans. Pakistan cricket has beguiled us for years and our love affair with the World Cup began in 1975. Our foray into the tournament was not particularly successful as we failed to progress past the group stages despite having some great players like Wasim Bari, Zaheer Abbas and Majid Khan. But we got a glimpse at the future potential of our team in 1979 when we made it to the semi-finals, losing to eventual champions, West Indies. The Pakistan team before the Prudential World Cup match. In the World Cup, the stakes…