Sindh cricket team

Sindh cricket team

Personnel
Captain	Sarfaraz Ahmed
Coach	Basit Ali
Owner	Sindh Cricket Association
Team information
Colours	Orange   Yellow
Founded	2019; 3 years ago (2019)
Home ground	National Stadium, Karachi
Secondary home ground(s)	Niaz Stadium, Hyderabad
History
Quaid-e-Azam Trophy wins	0
Pakistan Cup wins	0
National T20 Cup wins	0

Figure 1: The match held between Sindh & Australia in Karachi on 22 November 1935 was reported by The Sydney Morning Herald

Sindh cricket team is a domestic cricket team in Pakistan representing Sindh 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 Sindh Cricket Association.

History[]

The team was introduced as a part of the new domestic structure announced by the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) on 31 August 2019.^[1]

Former Sindh Team (Defunct): Historically, the Sindh province was known as the Sind where a team played in the Ranji Trophy from 1934–35 until 1947–48 in British India. After the formation of Pakistan in 1947, Sind occasionally played in the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy from 1953–54 to 1956–57, but then made only sporadic appearances at first-class level until the 1970s, when two Sindh teams (Sind A and Sind B) competed in the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy for several years. These former teams are all defunct and are not related to the current Sindh cricket team.

2019/20 Season[]

Sindh finished in fifth place in both 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 sixth and third place respectively in the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy and the National T20 Cup. Although finishing first in the league phase of the Pakistan Cup, Sindh did was could not progress to the final in the knock-out phase of the tournament.

Structure[]

As of 2019, domestic cricket in Pakistan was reorganised into six regional teams (on provincial lines). A three tier bottom-up system^[2] 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: Sindh
  • Tier 2: Karachi (Zone I), Karachi (Zone II), Karachi (Zone III), Karachi (Zone IV), Karachi (Zone V), Karachi (Zone VI), Karachi (Zone VII), Hyderabad, Jamshoro, Mirpur Khas, Badin, Sanghar, Sukkur, Shikarpur, Khairpur, Larkana & Benazirabad.
  • Tier 3: Various Clubs & Schools.

Current squad[]

Players with international caps are listed in bold.

See also[]

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

References[]

• Scorecard of the 1947 Sind v Punjab match