ThePakistan A cricket team, orPakistan Shaheens,[2] is a nationalcricket team representingPakistan. It is the second-tier of international Pakistan cricket, below the fullPakistan national cricket team. Matches played by Pakistan A are not considered to beTest matches orOne Day Internationals, receivingfirst-class andList A 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 toCeylon (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 againstEngland A the previous season having been cancelled due to theGulf War.[3]
International cap players are marked asBold. This is the list of players who represented Pakistan A in First-class and List A matches in the past 12 months.
