Murawwat Hussain (8 August 1918 – 25 September 1984) was a Pakistani cricketer and umpire.
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| Full name | Murawwat Hussain Shah | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 8 August 1918 Sialkot, Punjab Province, British India | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 25 September 1984 (aged 66) Lahore, Pakistan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Right-arm medium-pace | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Tests umpired | 1 (1959) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: ESPNcricinfo, 13 July 2013 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
A right-handed batsman and medium-pace bowler, Murawwat Hussain played first-class cricket in India and Pakistan from 1935 to 1954, and toured Ceylon with the Pakistan team in 1948-49. In the second of the two matches between Pakistan and Ceylon he made his highest first-class score, 164, and he and Nazar Mohammad put on 269 for the second wicket.[1]
He umpired 52 first-class matches in Pakistan, mostly in Lahore or Bahawalpur, from 1957 to 1978.[2] He stood in one Test match, the First Test of the series between Pakistan and West Indies in 1959, played at the National Stadium, Karachi.[3]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "Ceylon v Pakistan 1948-49 (II)". CricketArchive. Retrieved 15 November 2018.
- ^ "Murawwat Hussain as Umpire in First-Class Matches". CricketArchive. Retrieved 15 November 2018.
- ^ "Murawwat Hussain". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 13 July 2013.
External links
edit- Murawwat Hussain at CricketArchive (subscription required)
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