Murawwat Hussain | |
Country: | Pakistan |
Fullname: | Murawwat Hussain Shah |
Birth Date: | 8 August 1918 |
Birth Place: | Sialkot, Punjab Province, British India |
Death Place: | Lahore, Pakistan |
Batting: | Right-handed |
Bowling: | Right-arm medium-pace |
Columns: | 1 |
Column1: | First-class |
Matches1: | 37 |
Runs1: | 1468 |
Bat Avg1: | 29.36 |
100S/50S1: | 4/4 |
Top Score1: | 164 |
Deliveries1: | 2864 |
Wickets1: | 44 |
Bowl Avg1: | 28.36 |
Fivefor1: | 0 |
Tenfor1: | 0 |
Best Bowling1: | 4/27 |
Catches/Stumpings1: | 24/– |
Umpire: | true |
Testsumpired: | 1 |
Umptestdebutyr: | 1959 |
Date: | 13 July 2013 |
Source: | http://www.espncricinfo.com/pakistan/content/player/41917.html ESPNcricinfo |
Murawwat Hussain (8 August 1918 - 25 September 1984) was a Pakistani cricketer and umpire.
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]