Qamaruddin Butt
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| Born | 1914 Amritsar, Punjab, India |
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| Died | 8 June 1974 (aged 59–60) Rawalpindi, Pakistan |
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| Batting style | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling style | Right-arm leg-spin | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1933-34, 1937-38 | Southern Punjab | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1935-36 | Northern India | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1946-47 | Delhi | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Tests umpired | 1 (1965) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| FC umpired | 53 (1954–1973) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Source: Cricket Archive, 5 September 2015 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Qamaruddin Butt (1914 – 8 June 1974) was a Pakistani cricket player, writer and umpire. He stood in one Test match, Pakistan v New Zealand, in 1965.
A batsman, leg-spin bowler and occasional wicket-keeper, Butt played seven first-class matches for various Punjab teams from 1933 to 1947, including four matches in the Ranji Trophy for Southern Punjab, Northern India and Delhi. His highest score was 59 for a one-off team called the North India Free Lancers against Sind in 1936-37. In the only match in which he kept wicket, a semi-final of the Ranji Trophy in 1935-36, he took five catches in a narrow loss for Northern India to Bombay.
Butt umpired 53 first-class matches between 1954 and 1973, including four Quaid-e-Azam Trophy finals and several semi-finals. His first match as umpire was the inaugural final in 1953-54. From 1953-54 to 1959-60 he mostly umpired matches in the south of Pakistan in Karachi and nearby Hyderabad, but later most of his matches were in the north, in Rawalpindi and Peshawar. His only Test as umpire was also the only Test ever held at the Pindi Club Ground in Rawalpindi.
In parallel with his umpiring career, Butt was also a prolific chronicler of Pakistan’s Test cricket in the 1950s and 1960s. Drawing on his own observations and the reports of others, and known for his colourful use of language, he wrote 10 books (in English) covering most of Pakistan's international cricket from 1954 to 1969:
He also covered the 1967 Pakistan tour of England for Wisden.John Arlott described his writing as “colloquial, parochial and enthusiastic”.
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