Quetta cricket team
Quetta are a first-class cricket team based in Quetta, Balochistan, Pakistan. Their home ground is the Ayub National Stadium. Quetta participates in the Quaid-i-Azam Trophy. For Twenty20 cricket they are known as the Quetta Bears and participate in the Faysal Bank T20 Cup.
Quetta played their first first-class matches in the Quaid-i-Azam Trophy in 1957-58.[1] They reached the quarter-finals in 1962-63 and 1963-64, and continued playing in the Quaid-i-Azam Trophy until 1969-70. They also took part in first-class matches between 1962-63 and 1986-87 for the Ayub Trophy, the BCCP Trophy, the BCCP Patron's Trophy, and the BCCP President's Cup.
Quetta played no first-class matches between January 1987 and February 2004, when they once again began to take part in the Quaid-i-Azam Trophy.
Quetta have usually been one of the weaker teams in Pakistan cricket. As of mid-November 2013 they had played 130 first-class matches for 18 wins, 76 losses and 36 draws.[2]