Between the 1954–55 and 1970–71 seasons, 13

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teams from

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played in the

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domestic cricket competitions, the

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and the

Ayub Trophy The Patron's Trophy was a cricket competition that was held in Pakistan between 1960–61 and 2018–19 mainly among teams representing the government and semi-government departments, corporations, commercial organisations, business houses, banks, ...

. With the creation of

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in 1971, this participation ended. An East Pakistan Governor's XI also played a first-class match against the touring International XI in 1961–62.

List of teams

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'', such as "East Pakistan C.A." and "East Pakistan Sports Federation", both of which Cricket Archive calls simply East Pakistan. The only one of these teams to defeat sides from

West Pakistan West Pakistan ( ur, , translit=Mag̱ẖribī Pākistān, ; bn, পশ্চিম পাকিস্তান, translit=Pôścim Pakistan) was one of the two Provincial exclaves created during the One Unit Scheme in 1955 in Pakistan. It was d ...

was East Pakistan, which defeated

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four times,

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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

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team was

Niaz Ahmed Niaz Ahmed Siddiqi (11 November 1945 – 12 April 2000) was a Pakistani cricketer who played in two Tests in 1967 and 1969. He was the only East Pakistani to play Test cricket for Pakistan. Early career Ahmed was born in Benares, and his fami ...

. 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.

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, 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.

Shamim Kabir Anwarul Kabir Shamim (1944 – 29 July 2019) was a Bangladeshi cricketer. He led Bangladesh in its first international match, against the touring Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), in Dhaka, in January 1977. The tall and lanky opener had a successful m ...

, who played 15 first-class matches for various East Pakistan teams, later captained

in their first match, against the touring MCC in January 1977.

Javed Masood Javed Masood is a former cricketer who played first-class cricket for East Pakistan cricket teams in Pakistan from 1961 to 1968. His highest score was 215 against Hyderabad in the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy The Quaid-e-Azam Trophy is a domestic ...

hit the highest score for an East Pakistan team when he scored 215 in the victory over Hyderabad in 1962–63. According to

Shaharyar Khan Shahryar Mohammad Khan ( ur, شہریار محمد خان; born 12 March 1934) is a former career Pakistan diplomat who became Foreign Secretary of Pakistan in 1990, and remained so until his retirement from service in 1994. He later served as ...

was used for political purposes, to disguise Pakistan's neglect of cricket in East Pakistan: "There was a club-level cricketer from Dhaka called Niaz Ahmed who was Pakistan's perennial 12th man for quite some time, the Pakistan Cricket Board attempting to give the entirely unconvincing impression that East Pakistan was on the verge of national representation. The fact was that no effort was made by the governments of Pakistan or by the cricket boards to promote cricket in East Pakistan." Shaharyar M. Khan and Ali Khan, ''Cricket Cauldron'', I.B. Tauris, London, 2013, p. 26.

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.

References

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Leading players

Grounds

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References

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