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{{short description|Indian cricketer}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2023}}
{{Use Indian English|date=July 2013}}
{{Infobox cricketer
| name = Dilawar Hussain
| image =
| caption =
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1907|3|19|df=yes}}
| birth_place = [[Lahore]], [[British India]]
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1967|8|26|1907|3|19|df=yes}}
| death_place = Lahore, Pakistan
| family = [[Waqar Ahmed (cricketer, born 1947)|Waqar Ahmed]] (son)
| batting = Right-handed
| bowling =
| role = [[Wicket-keeper|Wicketkeeper]]-batsman
| columns = 2
| column1 = [[Test cricket|Tests]]
| matches1 = 3
| runs1 = 254
| bat avg1 = 42.33
| 100s/50s1 = 0/3
| top score1 = 59
| deliveries1 = –
| wickets1 = –
| bowl avg1 = –
| fivefor1 = –
| tenfor1 = –
| best bowling1 = –
| catches/stumpings1= 6/1
| column2 = [[First-class cricket|First-class]]
| matches2 = 57
| runs2 = 2,394
| bat avg2 = 28.16
| 100s/50s2 = 4/13
| top score2 = 122
| deliveries2 = 90
| wickets2 = 0
| bowl avg2 = –
| fivefor2 = 0
| tenfor2 = 0
| best bowling2 = –
| catches/stumpings2= 69/33
| country = India
| international = true
| internationalspan = 1934–1936

| testdebutfor =
| testdebutagainst = England
| testcap = 17
| testdebutdate = 5 January
| testdebutyear = 1934
| lasttestdate = 15 August
| lasttestfor =
| lasttestagainst = England
| lasttestyear = 1936

| source = http://content-ind.cricinfo.com/india/content/player/28092.html ESPNcricinfo
| date = 15 May
| year = 2020
}}
'''Dilawar Hussain''' {{audio|Dilawar_Hussain.ogg|pronunciation}} (19 March 1907 – 26 August 1967) was a Pakistani administrator and cricketer. He played for [[India national cricket team]] as a [[Test cricket]]er in the 1930s.<ref name="Bio">{{Cite web|url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/28092.html |title=Dilawar Hussain|access-date=15 May 2020 |publisher=ESPNcricinfo}}</ref>

Dilawar [[wicket-keeper|kept wicket]] for India in three [[Test cricket|Test]] matches. On his debut, Dilawar was made to open the innings against [[England cricket team|England]] on a green wicket in [[Eden Gardens|Calcutta]] [[English cricket team in India in 1933–34|in 1933-34]]. He was hit on the head by a delivery from [[Morris Nichols]] and retired. He returned with a bandage over his head, and was hit on the thumb by [[Nobby Clark (cricketer)|Nobby Clark]], but top scored with 59. He made 57 in the second innings and is one of the few Test cricketers to top-score in both innings on debut. He had started his [[first-class cricket|first-class]] career making 64 and 112 in his first match. His last appearance came about in the [[Indian cricket team in England in 1936|1936 Indian tour of England]]; Dilawar was studying at [[University of Cambridge|Cambridge University]] at the time and joined the team in England.<ref name="Bio"/>

The Indian Test batsman [[Cota Ramaswami]] has painted an exquisite picture of Dilawar:
<blockquote>He was a tall and bulky person with a prominent stomach and invariably played with a clean shaven head without any hat or cap or any kind of headgear. He always wore very loose pants and after batting for a while or keeping wicket for sometime his shirt will be hanging out of the trousers and somebody must tuck it in, now and then. He had a rather ugly and uncouth stance at the wicket as he held his bat very low and bent his body forward so much that his head was practically in line with the top of the wickets. Those who watched him from the on side could only see his prominent hind portion of the body sticking up while the head, bat and the rest of Dilawar Hussain were hardly visible. However, he had a very sound defence and so it was very difficult to get him out. He was the most selfish batsman that I have ever seen.<ref>Quoted in Bose, Mihir, ''A History of Indian Cricket'', Andre Deutsch, 1990</ref></blockquote>

He played first-class cricket in India from 1925 to 1941, with a gap between 1935 and 1938 while he was studying at [[University of Cambridge|Cambridge]].

Richard Cashman writes that he had an encyclopedic memory which enabled him to recall cricket score sheets at will and was also a "great eater and talker", "who could liven the passing hour with an unbroken monologue on any subject from philosophy ... to the art of seasoning a good curry".<ref>Cashman, Richard, ''Patrons, Players and the Crowd: The Phenomenon of Indian Cricket'', Orient Longman, 1979</ref>

Dilawar was known as "Professor" in his later years. He took a doctorate in Philosophy and was a double [[Master of Arts|MA]] degree holder. He served as the Principal of [[Government College University, Lahore|Government College]] and the [[Oriental College, Lahore|Muslim Anglo-Oriental College]], both in [[Lahore]]. He was a founder member of the [[Pakistan Cricket Board|Cricket Control Board in Pakistan]] and a selector.<ref>''[[Wisden Cricketers' Almanack|Wisden]]'' 1968, p. 1001.</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://content-ind.cricinfo.com/india/content/player/28092.html Dilawar Hussain] at [[ESPNcricinfo]]
* [https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/0/630/630.html Dilawar Hussain] at CricketArchive

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