Balochistan cricket team

Balochistan cricket team

Personnel
Captain	Imam Ul Haq
Coach	Faisal Iqbal
Owner	Balochistan Cricket Association
Team information
Colours	Grey   Orange
Founded	2019; 2 years ago (2019)
Home ground	Bugti Stadium, Quetta
Secondary home ground(s)	Gwadar Stadium, Gwadar
History
Quaid-e-Azam Trophy wins	0
Pakistan Cup wins	0
National T20 Cup wins	0

Balochistan cricket team is a domestic cricket team in Pakistan representing Balochistan province. It competes in domestic first-class, List A and T20 cricket competitions, namely the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy, Pakistan Cup and National T20 Cup. The team is operated by the Balochistan Cricket Association.

History[]

A new Balochistan team was one of the six teams introduced as a part of the restructure of domestic cricket announced by the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) on 31 August 2019.^[1]

Former Balochistan Teams (Defunct): Historically, the Balochistan province fielded a team by the same name in 1954 which played its inaugural season in the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy in 1954. Since, then a team from Balochistan has sporadically played in the Pakistani domestic circuit with various iterations, including a 'Rest of Balochistan' and a "North West Frontier Province and Balochistan".^[2] These former teams are all defunct and are not related to the current Balochistan cricket team.

2019/20 Season[]

Balochistan finished in sixth and second place respectively in the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy and National T20 Cup. The Pakistan Cup was cancelled this season due to the covid-19 pandemic.

2020/21 Season[]

The team finished in fourth, sixth and sixth place respectively, in the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy, Pakistan Cup and the National T20 Cup.

Structure[]

As of 2019, domestic cricket in Pakistan was reorganised into six regional teams (on provincial lines). A three tier bottom-up system^[3] is in operation with the Tier 1 teams participating in the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy (First Class), Pakistan Cup (List A) and National T20 Cup (Regional T20). The Tier 2 teams participate in the City Cricket Association Tournament whilst the Tier 3 teams participate in various local tournaments as both tiers feed players to the Tier 1 team.

• Tier 1: Balochistan
• Tier 2: Quetta, Pishin, Sibi, Noshki, Killa Abdullah, Naseerabad, Loralai, Gwadar, Panjgur, Turbat, Khuzdar, Jaffarabad & Lasbela.
• Tier 3: Various Clubs & Schools.

Current squad[]

Players with international caps are listed in bold.

See also[]

• Central Punjab cricket team
• Khyber Pakhtunkhwa cricket team
• Northern cricket team
• Sindh cricket team
• Southern Punjab cricket team

References[]

External links[]

• Lists of matches played by Baluchistan
• Lists of matches played by Rest of Baluchistan
• Lists of matches played by Baluchistan Governor's XI Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine