Rawalpindi Rams
| Captain: |
 Sohail Tanvir
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|---|---|
| Coach: |
Sabih Azhar
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| Colors: | / |
| Owner: | Rawalpindi Regional Cricket Association |
| Founded: | 2004 |
| Home ground: | Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium |
| Capacity: | 25,000 |
| National T20 Cup wins: | 0 |
| Super-8 T20 Cup wins: | 1 (2011) |
The Rawalpindi Rams (Urdu: راولپنڈی ریمز) are a domestic Twenty20 and List A cricket team, based in Rawalpindi, Punjab, Pakistan. The team was established in 2004–05 and its home ground is the Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium. The manager of the Rams is Sheikh Abdul Sattar.
Players with international caps are listed in bold.
The Pindi-based club failed to make their mark in this edition and bowed out at the group stages, although many criticize the format of the tournament for creating 'pressure-cooker' games, as you have to win both of your group matches to proceed to the next stage because of the fact that only a single team advances to the semis from each of the four groups.
The tournament started off with a scare for the Rams as the Quetta Bears had them at the ropes at 59–5 but the allrounder-wiketkeeper duo of Yasir Arafat and Jamal Anwar successfully revived the scoreboard and set a challenging total of 143 for victory. The score would prove more than enough for the Bears as they succumbed to the seam bowling attack of the Rams with just 67 on board.
Following the large victory, however, they lost to Lahore Lions in a crucial fixture at the Gaddafi Stadium. Pursuing 172 for victory, they were all-out for 150 largely because of the handy contributions from the left-arm spinner, Sohail Ahmad, who scored an invaluable 24 with the bat and then came back to take 4–13 to end the Rams' chances of qualifying for the semis.
Umar Amin was the most productive run-scorer for the Rawalpindi Rams, scoring 72 runs from the two games with a half century under his belt. Pakistan's future fast-bowling star Mohammad Aamer also turned a few heads at the initial stages of the tournament with 5 wickets at exactly 3.25 runs per over.
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