[1] In their second match their total of 405 was not enough to secure a first-innings lead against Bahawalpur, who proceeded to the finals and won the trophy.
They were more successful in that season's Quaid-i-Azam Trophy, reaching the final, where they lost by nine wickets to Karachi, for whom the Mohammad brothers Wazir, Hanif and Raees, all scored centuries.
After taking a first-innings lead Combined Services were dismissed for 143, and Karachi Blues were able to score the 217 required for victory for the loss of six wickets.
They returned in the 1976–77 season, captained by Nayyar Hussain at the age of 41, to play in the BCCP Patron's Trophy.
Overall Combined Services played 33 matches in various first-class tournaments, winning 14, losing 11 and drawing 8.
[14] In the same period Shujauddin played 19 Tests, and 27 matches for Combined Services, in which he scored 1407 runs at 30.58[15] and took 122 wickets at 15.44.
[16] Other Combined Services players who played Test cricket in the 1950s and early 1960s included Abdul Hafeez Kardar (the first captain of both the Pakistan Test team and Combined Services), Waqar Hasan, Mohammed Ghazali, Miran Bux and Munir Malik.