Pakistan International Airlines cricket team

Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) cricket team was a first-class cricket side sponsored by the national flag carrier, Pakistan International Airlines (PIA), and was based in Karachi before its disestablishment in 2020.[1] The side has won the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy more times than anyone else except Karachi.

Pakistan International Airlines
Personnel
CaptainSarfaraz Ahmed
OwnerPakistan International Airlines
Team information
Colours 
Founded1960
Dissolved2020
Official websitewww.piac.com.pk

They played their first first-class match in May 1961, under the captaincy of Hanif Mohammad,[2] and their last in November 2016, captained by Fahad Iqbal.[3] They played 407 first-class matches, with 159 wins, 73 losses and 175 draws.[4]

Honours

Qaid-i-Azam Trophy (6)

  • 1969-70
  • 1979-80
PIA cricketer Shoaib Akhtar
  • 1987-88
  • 1989-90
  • 1999-2000
  • 2002-03
  • 2011-12

National One Day Championship (11)

  • 1980–81
  • 1981–82
  • 1982–83
  • 1985–86
  • 1987-88
  • 1995–96
  • 1999–2000
  • 2001–02
  • 2002–03
  • 2008–09
  • 2011–12 Division One

Notable players

References
  1. "Departmental cricket's end sees PIA tell its cricketers to do regular work". www.geosuper.tv.
  2. "Peshawar Commissioner's XI v Pakistan International Airlines 1960-61". CricketArchive.com. Retrieved 24 July 2023.
  3. "Pool B, Faisalabad, November 12-15, 2016, Quaid-e-Azam Trophy". Cricinfo. Retrieved 24 July 2023.
  4. "Playing Record (1960/61-2016/17)". CricketArchive. Retrieved 24 July 2023.


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