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Khyber Pakhtunkhwa cricket team is a Pakistani first-class cricket
First-class cricket
First-class cricket is a class of cricket that consists of matches of three or more days' scheduled duration, that are between two sides of eleven players and are officially adjudged first-class by virtue of the standard of the competing teams...

 team.

The Province played some Ranji Trophy
Ranji Trophy
The Ranji Trophy is a domestic first-class cricket championship played in India between different city and state sides, equivalent to the County Championship in England and the Sheffield Shield in Australia...

 matches during the 1930s and 1940s and for the rest of the century competed in the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy.

They currently participate in the regional Pentangular Trophy
Pentangular Trophy
-History:It was first contested in 1973-74 and later in the decade the competition's name was changed the BCCP Invitation Tournament. In 1980-81 it became the PACO Cup and remained so for a further five seasons. For the rest of the decade the tournament didn't take place and it wasn't until the...

. This is a combined team of the best 20 men out of the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy who belong to the province. Its players are selected from main domestic teams of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province like Peshawar etc.

Squad

They played following players in 2007-08 season Pentangular Trophy.
  • Rifatullah Mohammad
  • Yasir Hameed
    Yasir Hameed
    Yasir Hameed Qureshi is a Pakistani cricketer. He scored two centuries on his Test debut against Bangladesh, becoming only the second player to do so...

  • Wajahat ullah Wasti
  • Khuram Shehzad
  • Younus Khan
  • Zulfiqar Jan
  • Yasir Shah
  • Noman Habib
  • Fazal e Akbar
  • Waqar Ahmad
  • Samiullah Khan Niazi
  • Aftab Alam
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