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{{short description|Pakistani cricketer}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2018}}
{{Infobox cricketer
| name = Qamaruddin Butt
| image =
| country = Pakistan
| fullname =
| birth_date = 1914
| birth_place = [[Amritsar]], [[Punjab, India|Punjab]], India
| death_date = 8 June {{death year and age|1974|1914}}
| death_place = [[Rawalpindi]], Pakistan
| batting = Right-handed
| bowling = Right-arm leg-spin
| club1 = [[Southern Punjab cricket team (India)|Southern Punjab]]
| year1 = 1933-34, 1937-38
| club2 = [[Northern India cricket team|Northern India]]
| year2 = 1935-36
| club3 = [[Delhi cricket team|Delhi]]
| year3 = 1946-47
| columns = 1
| column1 = [[First-class cricket|First-class]]
| matches1 = 7
| runs1 = 225
| bat avg1 = 20.45
| 100s/50s1 = 0/1
| top score1 = 59
| deliveries1 = 362
| wickets1 = 7
| bowl avg1 = 30.00
| fivefor1 = –
| tenfor1 = –
| best bowling1 = 3/33
| catches/stumpings1= 7/–
| role =
| umpire = true
| testsumpired = 1
| umptestdebutyr = 1965
| umptestlastyr =
| fcumpired = 53
| umpfcdebutyr = 1954
| umpfclastyr = 1973

| date = 5 September 2015
| source = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/43/43129/43129.html Cricket Archive
}}
'''Qamaruddin Butt''' (1914 – 8 June 1974) was a Pakistani [[cricket]] player, writer and [[umpire (cricket)|umpire]]. He stood in one [[Test cricket|Test match]], Pakistan v New Zealand, in 1965.<ref name="Cricinfo">{{Cite web|url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/pakistan/content/player/42399.html |title= Qamaruddin Butt |access-date=15 July 2013 |work=ESPN Cricinfo}}</ref>

==Playing career==
A batsman, leg-spin bowler and occasional wicket-keeper, Butt played seven [[first-class cricket|first-class]] matches for various [[Punjab region|Punjab]] teams from 1933 to 1947, including four matches in the [[Ranji Trophy]] for [[Southern Punjab cricket team (India)|Southern Punjab]], [[Northern India cricket team|Northern India]] and [[Delhi cricket team|Delhi]]. His highest score was 59 for a one-off team called the North India Free Lancers against [[Sindh cricket team|Sind]] in 1936-37.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/16/16032.html| title = Sind v North India Free Lancers, 1936-37| publisher = CricketArchive| access-date = 5 September 2015}}</ref> 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 [[Mumbai cricket team|Bombay]].<ref>{{cite web | url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/15/15719.html| title = Northern India v Bombay, 1935-36| publisher = CricketArchive| access-date = 5 September 2015}}</ref>

==Umpiring career==
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.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/43/43129/Umpire_in_First-Class_Matches.html| title = Qamaruddin Butt as umpire in first-class matches| publisher = CricketArchive| access-date = 5 September 2015}}</ref> From 1953-54 to 1959-60 he mostly umpired matches in the south of Pakistan in [[Karachi]] and nearby [[Hyderabad, Sindh|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, when [[Pakistan cricket team|Pakistan]] defeated [[New Zealand cricket team|New Zealand]] in March 1965.<ref>{{cite web|title=Qamaruddin Butt as Umpire in Test Matches|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/43/43129/Umpire_in_Test_Matches.html|website=CricketArchive|access-date=25 July 2017}}</ref>

==Writing career==
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,<ref>{{cite news| work=Daily Times | first=Khalid |last=Hasan |access-date=5 September 2015| title=Fazal Mahmood, a hero of our time |url=http://archives.dailytimes.com.pk/national/31-May-2005/fazal-mahmood-a-hero-of-our-time |date=31 May 2005}}</ref> he wrote 10 books (in English) covering most of Pakistan's international cricket from 1954 to 1969:

* ''Pakistan on Cricket Map: Fully Covering Pakistan's Cricket Tour of England 1954, Together with Complete Averages, Records and Action Photos'' (1955)
* ''Cricket without Challenge'' (1955) (on the series Pakistan v India in 1954-55)
* ''Pakistan Cricket on the March: Containing Complete Eye-Witness Accounts of the Tours of New Zealand, M.C.C. "A" and Australian Teams to Pakistan, Quaid-e-Azam Trophy 1956-57 and Averages of All the Previous Official Series'' (1957)
* ''Cricket Wonders: Containing a Complete Account of Pakistan Team's Tour of the West Indies in 1958'' (1959)
* ''Cricket Ups and Downs: Containing a Complete Eye-Witness Account of West Indies Tour of Pakistan in 1959'' (1960)
* ''Cricket Cat and Mouse: Australians' Tour of Pakistan in 1959'' (1961)
* ''Playing for a Draw: Covering Pakistan’s Tour of India 1960-61'' (1962)
* ''Cricket Re-Born: Covering Commonwealth Cricket Team’s Tour in Pakistan, 1963'' (1964)
* ''The Oval Memories: Eye-Witness Accounts of the Pakistan Cricket Team's Tour of England 1967'' (1968)
* ''Sporting Wickets: Eye-Witness Accounts of Tours of M.C.C. and New Zealand to Pakistan 1969'' (1970)

He also covered the [[Pakistani cricket team in England in 1967|1967 Pakistan tour of England]] for ''[[Wisden Cricketers' Almanack|Wisden]]''.<ref>Qamaruddin Butt, "Pakistan in England, 1967", ''[[Wisden Cricketers' Almanack|Wisden]]'' 1968, pp. 307–34.</ref> [[John Arlott]] described his writing as “colloquial, parochial and enthusiastic”.<ref>''Wisden'' 1961, p. 994.</ref>

==Personal life==
He died while cycling home from a cricket match in Rawalpindi.<ref>[[Peter Oborne]], ''Wounded Tiger: The History of Cricket in Pakistan'', Simon & Schuster, London, 2014, p. xx.</ref>

His sons Javed<ref>[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/42/42450/42450.html Javed Butt] at CricketArchive. Retrieved 6 September 2015.</ref> and Shoaib<ref>[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/43/43499/43499.html Shoaib Butt] at CricketArchive. Retrieved 6 September 2015.</ref> had brief first-class careers in Pakistan in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Qamaruddin umpired three of Shoaib’s matches.

==See also==
* [[List of Test cricket umpires]]

==References==
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==External links==
*{{cricketarchive|ref=Players/43/43129/43129.html}}

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