1954–55 Quaid-e-Azam Trophy

1954–55 Quaid-e-Azam Trophy
Dates	29 October 1954 – 24 April 1955
Administrator(s)	Board of Control for Cricket in Pakistan
Cricket format	First-class (three-day)
Tournament format(s)	Knockout
Champions	Karachi (1st title)
Participants	9
Matches	8
	← 1953-54 1956–57 →

The 1954–55 Quaid-e-Azam Trophy was a first-class cricket competition that was held in Pakistan from 29 October 1954 to 24 April 1955. It was the second edition of the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy.

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The competition was contested as a knockout tournament by nine teams, an increase of two from the first season, representing both regions and government departments; East Pakistan cricket team and Baluchistan made their first appearances in the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy. 1953–54 winner Bahawalpur received a bye through to the semi-finals.

The final, played in Karachi, was contested between Karachi and Combined Services. Karachi won by nine wickets, easily scoring the 33 runs they needed for victory after forcing Combined Services to follow-on in their second innings.

Team	Captain(s)
Bahawalpur	Israr Ali
Baluchistan	Athar Khan
Combined Services	Abdul Kardar
East Pakistan	Mohammad Sarwar
Karachi	Anwar Hussain
North-West Frontier Province	Sher Khan
Punjab	Fazal Mahmood
Railways	Masood Salahuddin
Sind	Anwar Shaikh

Karachi	v	Combined Services
438 all out (173.3 overs) Wazir Mohammad 118 Saleem Iqbal 2/65 (15 overs)		221 all out (68.5 overs) Imtiaz Ahmed 81 Mahmood Hussain 5/75 (28 overs)
35/1 (7 overs) Ikram Qureshi 16* Baseer Shamsi 1/17 (4 overs)		249 (81.3 overs) (f/o) Ebbu Ghazali 55 Abdul Wahab 4/31 (12.3 overs)

1954–55 Quaid-e-Azam Trophy

Teams

Results

Final

References

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