East Pakistan first-class cricket teams

Between the 195455 and 197071 seasons, 13 first-class cricket teams from East Pakistan played in the Pakistan domestic cricket competitions, the Quaid-i-Azam Trophy and the Ayub Trophy.Also East Pakistan Governor's XI played a first-class match against the touring International XI in 1961-62. With the creation of Bangladesh in 1971, this participation ended.

List of teams

Team name First season Seasons Played Won Lost Drawn
East Pakistan1954-55916655
East Pakistan Greens1956-5736303
East Pakistan Whites1956-5735032
East Pakistan A1957-5812101
East Pakistan B1957-5812002
Dacca University1957-5847214
Dacca University and Education Board1964-6512110
East Zone1961-6211001
Dacca1964-6526231
Chittagong1964-6511001
Rajshahi1964-6511001
Khulna1964-6511010
East Pakistan Railways1967-6812011

NB: Team names are as they appear on Cricket Archive scorecards. Some names differ in Wisden, such as "East Pakistan C.A."[1] and "East Pakistan Sports Federation",[2] both of which Cricket Archive calls simply East Pakistan.

The only team to defeat sides from West Pakistan was East Pakistan, which defeated Hyderabad four times, Khairpur once, and a combined Hyderabad-Khairpur-Quetta team once.

East Pakistan also played first-class matches against the touring Indians in 1954-55 and the MCC in 1955-56. The touring team won on each occasion.

Leading players

The only East Pakistan player to be selected in the Pakistan Test team was Niaz Ahmed. Several Test players from West Pakistan played for East Pakistan teams, however; when East Pakistan defeated Hyderabad-Khairpur-Quetta in 1966-67, the losing team protested that six of the East Pakistan team were actually from West Pakistan and should have been ineligible.[3]

Abdul Latif,[4] who captained East Pakistan teams in several matches, was a prominent player in the 1960s. He scored three centuries, and took 24 wickets for 97 with his leg-spin in two consecutive matches for East Pakistan Greens in January 1968.[5][6]

Javed Masood[7] hit the highest score for an East Pakistan team when he scored 215 in the victory over Hyderabad in 1962-63.[8]

Grounds

Most first-class matches in East Pakistan were played at Dacca Stadium. Pakistan also played seven Tests at the stadium between 1955 and 1969.

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