The Pakistan A cricket team, or Pakistan Shaheens, is a national

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team representing Pakistan. It is the second-tier of international Pakistan cricket, below the full Pakistan national cricket team. Matches played by Pakistan A are not considered to be

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s, receiving first-class and

List A List A cricket is a classification of the limited-overs (one-day) form of the sport of cricket, with games lasting up to eight hours. List A cricket includes One Day International (ODI) matches and various domestic competitions in which the numbe ...

classification respectively. Pakistan A played their first match in August 1964, a three-day first-class contest against Ceylon Board President's XI. Pakistan A have played a number of series, both home and away, against other national A teams, and competed against other first-class opposition. Their first tour was to

Ceylon Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්‍රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ()), formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an ...

(now Sri Lanka) in 1964–65. Pakistan A did not play another match until the 1991 season when they again toured Sri Lanka, a series against England A the previous season having been cancelled due to the Gulf War.

References

External links

Cricket Archive page for Pakistan A Cricket Team

CricketnLive page for Pakistan A Cricket Team

Cricnscore page for Pakistan A Cricket Team
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