North West Frontier Province cricket team

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North West Frontier Province cricket team
Team information
Founded	1887
Last match	1946
Home ground	Peshawar Club Ground, Peshawar
History
First-class debut	Southern Punjab in 1937 at Baradari Ground, Patiala
Ranji Trophy wins	0

The North West Frontier Province cricket team was an Indian domestic cricket team representing the British Indian province of North-West Frontier Province. The team played in the Ranji Trophy from the 1937–1938 Indian cricket season until 1945–46 season in British India, before the partition of India.

The team first played first-class cricket in Ranji Trophy in the 1937 season against Southern Punjab team. The team continued to appear in the Ranji Trophy until the 1945-1946 season when it played its final first-class match against Delhi.^[1]

Following independence and the partition of India, the NWFP team competed in various national competitions in Pakistan. In 2010, the province was renamed "Khyber Pakhtunkhwa", and the cricket team was renamed accordingly.

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^ First-Class Matches played by North West Frontier Province

v t e Ranji Trophy
Seasons	1934–35 1935–36 1936–37 1937–38 1938–39 1939–40 1940–41 1941–42 1942–43 1943–44 1944–45 1945–46 1946–47 1947–48 1948–49 1949–50 1950–51 1951–52 1952–53 1953–54 1954–55 1955–56 1956–57 1957–58 1958–59 1959–60 1960–61 1961–62 1962–63 1963–64 1964–65 1965–66 1966–67 1967–68 1968–69 1969–70 1970–71 1971–72 1972–73 1973–74 1974–75 1975–76 1976–77 1977–78 1978–79 1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16 2016–17 2017–18 2018–19 2019–20 ~~2020–21~~ 2021–22 2022–23 2023–24
Current teams	Andhra Arunachal Pradesh Assam Baroda Bengal Bihar Chandigarh Chhattisgarh Delhi Goa Gujarat Haryana Himachal Pradesh Hyderabad Jammu and Kashmir Jharkhand Karnataka Kerala Madhya Pradesh Maharashtra Manipur Meghalaya Mizoram Mumbai Nagaland Odisha Pondicherry Punjab Railways Rajasthan Saurashtra Services Sikkim Tamil Nadu Tripura Uttar Pradesh Uttarakhand Vidarbha
Former teams	Army Central Provinces and Berar Eastern Punjab Nawanagar Northern India Northern Punjab North West Frontier Province Patiala Sind Southern Punjab Travancore-Cochin Western India
Records	List of Ranji Trophy records Triple centuries Hat-tricks

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