[3] Pakistan Universities entered the Quaid-i-Azam Trophy in 1958–59, having the better of a draw against Railways before losing on the first innings to Lahore.
In the first match, against Public Works Department, they dominated a draw, the captain Wasim Raja taking 5 for 77 and 5 for 23 and scoring 117.
In 1973–74, in Pakistan Universities' fifteenth first-class match, they won for the first time, beating Lahore A by 10 wickets in the Patron's Trophy.
In their first match of the season they beat Bahawalpur by an innings and 188 runs in the Patron's Trophy, making their record score of 641, Azhar Khan hitting 209 not out.
Thereafter their record slipped, and they won only two more matches in the next four seasons, both in the Quaid-i-Azam Trophy: against Railways in 1977–78[13] and against North-West Frontier Province in 1978–79 by two wickets.