Balochistan cricket team is a domestic

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team in Pakistan representing

Balochistan Balochistan ( ; bal, بلۏچستان; also romanised as Baluchistan and Baluchestan) is a historical region in Western and South Asia, located in the Iranian plateau's far southeast and bordering the Indian Plate and the Arabian Sea coastline. ...

province. It competes in domestic first-class,

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and T20 cricket competitions, namely the

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and

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. The team is operated by the Balochistan Cricket Association.

History

Before 2019

The Balochistan team was founded in 1954 and played its inaugural season in the

in 1954. In 1954-55 Balochistan played one match in the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy, losing to

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by 53 runs at the Racecourse Ground,

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. They were captained by Athar Khan, who made 36 and 57 and took two wickets. A combined

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and Balochistan team played the MCC in

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in 1955-56, losing by an innings. None of the team had played for Balochistan in the 1954-55 match. Each season from 1972-73 to 1978-79 (except for 1975-76 when they conceded without playing) Balochistan played one match in the Quaid-i-Azam Trophy. They lost all six matches, five of them by an innings and the other by 259 runs. They were dismissed for under 100 seven times. Their lowest total was 53 (followed by 77 in the second innings) against

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(476 for 6 declared) in 1974-75. They dismissed their opponents only once. In 1973-74 they conceded a total of 951 for 6 declared to Sind,

Aftab Baloch Aftab Baloch ( ur, آفتاب بلوچ) (1 April 1953 – 24 January 2022) was a Pakistani cricketer. Career He played in two Tests from 1969 to 1975. A right-handed middle order batsman and capable right arm offbreak bowler, Baloch is best kno ...

scoring 428. He made 200 not out for National Bank against Balochistan in 1974-75, giving him a career average of 628.00 against Balochistan. Sind's victory margin in the 1973-74 match, an innings and 575 runs, is one of the highest in the history of first-class cricket. Shahid Fawad was Balochistan's most successful batsman in this period. He played four matches, scoring 32 not out (top score) and 25 (top score) in 1972-73, and 33 (second-top score) and 94 (top score, and Baluchistan's top score in the 1970s) against Sind in 1978-79. In 1978-79 a "North West Frontier Province and Balochistan" team played the touring Indians in a drawn first-class match in

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. The team actually included no players from Balochistan teams or from Balochistan province.

Since 2019

A new Balochistan team was one of the six teams introduced as a part of the restructure of domestic cricket announced by the

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(PCB) on 31 August 2019.

Structure

As of 2019, domestic cricket in Pakistan was reorganised into six regional teams (on provincial lines). A three tier bottom-up system is in operation with the Tier 1 teams participating in the

( First Class),

(

) and

(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.

Season summaries

2019/20 Season

Balochistan finished in sixth and second place respectively in the

and

. The Pakistan Cup was cancelled this season due to the

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2020/21 Season

The team finished in fourth, sixth and sixth place respectively, in the

and the

Current squad

Players with international caps are listed in bold.

References

External links

Lists of matches played by Baluchistan

{{Pakistani first class cricket teams Cricket in Balochistan, Pakistan