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Pakistan Cricket Club (formerly known as Seahawks Cricket Club) was formed by Ali Shah He saw the need for organizing a cricket team. He started the team in 1985 and named it Seahawks Cricket Club. We can only recall the following names from the original team (Ali Shah, Abdul Aziz, Yaqub Abdulrehman, Rahim Abdul Jabbar, Youssef Siddiqui, Dutchin Rampersad, Nazam, and Qadir ) First two years were tough not winning a game. In those days, we had only one division and many West Indian players of very high standard over powered the league.
Sometimes in late eighties the league was divided into two divisions to promote a junior league. The idea was to compete with relatively similar teams. For obvious reasons, we were slotted in the junior league (Division 2). We started to get some good players like Amir Butt, Tariq Mian, Mansoor Khan, Irfan Arab, Ashish Kapoor, Furhan Khan, and Naim Uddin. We had a huge turn over because people were immigrating and then leaving Manitoba. Some of these people moved and we got another two good players in the form of Shahid Anwar and Mohammad Rathore. In 1990 we won the second (junior) division and moved to the senior division (1st). We started to play well and the team ranking started to move up from the bottom. We have been playing really well for last 6 years but never made it to the final except once. In that final, we had a commanding lead and the game was rained out. The opposition won the championship on technicality
In 2004 we had big group waiting to take step in to Manitoba cricket field, it was hard to manage single team with all new and old players, so we decided to make another team Pakistan 2, as Manitoba Cricket Association rules new team has to start from junior division, they played very well in their first season, in 2005 we lost almost half team of Pakistan 2 because of unavailability of players but same time new people immigrated to Manitoba, it was almost new structure of team in 2005, named Awais Qadeer, Hammad Khan, Anis Khan, Kashif Hayat, Imran Khan, Burhan, Ahsun Qureshi, Shoib Khan, Khurram Ali, Noor Khan, Shiraz, Talal Khan. In their first summer season team standing was second but in just second season of team they become junior league champion and moved to senior league also changed name to Patriots.
Later in 2006 another team was created and named Seahawks again to give an honor to first Pakistan team in Manitoba cricket history.
Currently Pakistan Cricket Clubs is based on three teams, Pakistan 1, Patriots and Seahawks.
Pakistan Cricket Clubs always looks for new comers to join their club, and demonstrate their expertise of cricket.
Contact 204-791-7653 if you are interested.