Where is Quaid - e - Azam trophy tournament held ?

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Where is Quaid - e - Azam trophy tournament held ?


The Quaid-e-Azam Trophy is a domestic first-class level cricket championship contested in Pakistan with the participation of six local cricket teams.

Named after Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan, who is referred to as 'Quaid-i-Azam' (Great Leader), the trophy in the 1953-54 season started to help the selectors choose the squad for Pakistan's Test tour of England in 1954. Five local and two departmental teams contested in this season. Their names were:- Bahawalpur, Punjab, Karachi, North-West Frontier Province, Sindh, Combined Services and Pakistan Railways. 

The contest's format has seldom remained unchanged from season one. It has been contested on occasion with by the local teams and sometimes through departmental teams. However normally with the aid of an aggregate of the two.

In 1956–1957 season it turned into determined that Karachi and Punjab would have to play three teams each to make the teams greater evenly matched. The Pakistan Cricket Board announced a new domestic structure ahead of the 2019–20 season, which covered the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy being contested by way of six newly formed local teams.