1. Your first line of attack could be to select the beginning most in tune with the idea that the sentence is trying to convey. Thus, either WOULD HAVE CHOSEN or WOULD CHOOSE.

2. A cricketer trying to predict something today probably WOULD CHOOSE an outcome or WOULD SAY something or WOULD EXPECT something.

3. Nevertheless, this sentence is talking about how a hypothetical cricketer was trying in 1996 to predict something: in other words, the action of trying to predict is happening in the past. (The sentence makes this perfectly clear in the ending: the statement that the cricketer was WRONG tells us that the game finished and that the outcome was different from the one predicted.)

4. Consequently, the cricketer probably WOULD HAVE CHOSEN Pakistan. This Perfect Conditional form presents a hypothetical past action. And since this hypothetical action has a consequence, the cricketer WOULD HAVE BEEN wrong. (The given sentence does not repeat WOULD HAVE, because there is no need: those verbs apply equally to CHOSEN and to BEEN.)

5. In option B, the sequence WOULD HAVE CHOSEN ... AND BE is grammatically unsound and illogical. It implies that the cricketer would have chosen an outcome in 1996 and would be wrong in some unspecified future - perhaps in 2017. But cricket games, though long, are not that long.

6. If you missed this problem, you could still have eliminated B on the basis of the IT, which states quite directly that the outcome of the match would have been Pakistan.

(Actually, option A, though the best option and the one you would have to select, is still not very good: it makes little sense to say that somebody trying to predict the outcome would have chosen Pakistan: this is the same error as the one in option B, though there it occurs in a grosser form. What the sentence is trying to say, but does not say very successfully, is that a cricketer trying to predict the outcome would have foretold a victory by Pakistan.)

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