Shujauddin Butt

Shujauddin
Personal information
Full name	Shujauddin Butt
Born	10 April 1930; Lahore, Punjab, British India
Died	7 February 2006 (aged 75); London, England
Batting	Right-handed
Bowling	Slow left-arm orthodox
Role	All-rounder
International information
National side	Pakistan;
Test debut (cap 17)	10 June 1954 v England
Last Test	2 February 1962 v England
Domestic team information
1947	Northern India
1947	Punjab
1948–52	Punjab University
1953–64	Combined Services
1958–70	Bahawalpur
1966	Rawalpindi
Career statistics
	Source: CricketArchive, 2 March 2013

Shujauddin Butt (10 April 1930 – 7 February 2006) was a Pakistani army officer and cricketer who played in 19 Tests from 1954 to 1962.

He served in the Pakistan Army for 26 years, retiring as a lieutenant colonel in 1978. In 1971 he was captured during the Bangladesh war and held as a prisoner-of-war in India for 18 months.^[1]

He managed Pakistan's tours to Australia and the West Indies in 1976-77.^[2] He wrote two books of Pakistan cricket history, From Babes of Cricket to World Champions (1996) and The Chequered History of Pakistan Cricket (2003), with Mohammed Salim Parvez.^[3]

References

^ Peter Oborne, Wounded Tiger: The History of Cricket in Pakistan, Simon & Schuster, London, 2014, p. 25.
^ Wisden 2007, p. 1572.
^ Oborne, p. 562.

External links

Shujauddin Butt at Cricket Archive
Shujauddin at Cricinfo

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[1] Peter Oborne, Wounded Tiger: The History of Cricket in Pakistan, Simon & Schuster, London, 2014, p. 25.

[2] Wisden 2007, p. 1572.

[3] Oborne, p. 562.

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