Syed Mahboob Ali Shah is a former Pakistan

Pakistan

Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...

i first-class cricket

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First-class cricket is a class of cricket that consists of matches of three or more days' scheduled duration, that are between two sides of eleven players and are officially adjudged first-class by virtue of the standard of the competing teams...

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Test cricket

Test cricket is the longest form of the sport of cricket. Test matches are played between national representative teams with "Test status", as determined by the International Cricket Council , with four innings played between two teams of 11 players over a period of up to a maximum five days...

 cricket

Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

 umpire

Umpire (cricket)

In cricket, an umpire is a person who has the authority to make judgements on the cricket field, according to the Laws of Cricket...

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Mahboob Shah was born in Delhi

Delhi

Delhi , officially National Capital Territory of Delhi , is the largest metropolis by area and the second-largest by population in India, next to Mumbai. It is the eighth largest metropolis in the world by population with 16,753,265 inhabitants in the Territory at the 2011 Census...

. Before becoming an umpire, he played in 14 first-class matches for Baluchistan, Central Zone

Central Zone cricket team

The Central Zone cricket team is a first-class cricket team that represents central India in the Duleep Trophy. It is a composite team of players from five first-class Indian teams from central India competing in the Ranji Trophy: Madhya Pradesh, Railways, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and Vidarbha...

, Karachi Whites, Karachi C, Quetta and Karachi University between 1954/55 and 1960/61. He reached the Final of the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy in 1957/58 with Karachi C, losing to Bahawalpur

Bahawalpur cricket team

Bahawalpur cricket team were a first-class cricket side who played in Pakistani first class cricket. They were from the city of Bahawalpur and won the inaugural Quaid-i-Azam Trophy, with the team captained by Mohammad Saeed. His son in law Fazal Mahmood played beside him in that championship...

. He achieved a batting average

Batting average

Batting average is a statistic in both cricket and baseball that measures the performance of cricket batsmen and baseball hitters. The two statistics are related in that baseball averages are directly descended from the concept of cricket averages.- Cricket :...

 of 21.10 in 21 innings

Innings

An inning, or innings, is a fixed-length segment of a game in any of a variety of sports – most notably cricket and baseball during which one team attempts to score while the other team attempts to prevent the first from scoring. In cricket, the term innings is both singular and plural and is...

, including a high score of 152, his only first-class century, for Karachi University against Sind University in February 1960;http://www.cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/23/23973.html as a medium-fast bowler, he took 12 wicket

Wicket

In the sport of cricket the word wicket has several distinct meanings:-Definitions of wicket:Most of the time, the wicket is one of the two sets of three stumps and two bails at either end of the pitch...

s at an bowling average

Bowling average

Bowling average is a statistic measuring the performance of bowlers in the sport of cricket.A bowler's bowling average is defined as the total number of runs conceded by the bowlers divided by the number of wickets taken by the bowler, so the lower the average the better. It is similar to earned...

 of 22.58, including 6/14 for Karachi C against Sind A in October 1957.http://www.cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/22/22704.html

He umpired 28 Test matches

Test cricket

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 and 32 ODIs between March 1975 and March 1997, mainly in Pakistan - only four of his Test matches were overseas. He made his Test umpiring debut in March 1975, in the second Test between Pakistan and West Indies at the National Stadium, Karachi

National Stadium, Karachi

The National Stadium is a cricket stadium in Karachi, Pakistan. It is currently used for cricket matches, and is home to Karachi's domestic cricket teams. The stadium is able to hold 34,228 spectators, making it the second largest cricket stadium in Pakistan after Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore...

.http://www.cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/34/34948.html He stood regularly in Test matches in Pakistan from 1978 to 1990. In 1994, he and Khizer Hayat

Khizer Hayat

Khizer Hayat is a Pakistani former cricket player and umpire. Hayat played ten years of first-class cricket before taking up umpiring, retiring having officiated in 34 Tests and 55 One Day International matches.-Biography:...

 were the two Pakistani representatives on the first international panel of umpires

International Panel of Umpires and Referees

The International Panel of ICC Umpires was established by the ICC in 1994 following trial in 1992/3, to ensure that one neutral umpire would stand in every Test match. It is made up of officials nominated from each of the ten Test playing cricket boards...

, set up by the ICC

International Cricket Council

The International Cricket Council is the international governing body of cricket. It was founded as the Imperial Cricket Conference in 1909 by representatives from England, Australia and South Africa, renamed the International Cricket Conference in 1965, and took up its current name in 1989.The...

 to ensure that one neutral umpire would stand in every Test match (later supplemented by the Elite Panel of ICC Umpires).http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/cricket-bird-launches-initiative-1406868.html He stood in his first Test outside Pakistan in March 1994, in the third Test between South Africa and Australia at Kingsmead

Sahara Stadium Kingsmead

Kingsmead is a cricket ground in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. It operates under the sponsorship-based name of Sahara Stadium Kingsmead where Sahara is the trademark of a sponsor from the IT industry. Its stated capacity is 25,000, although grass terracing makes up part of the viewing area....

, Durban

Durban

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.http://www.cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/58/58707.html His final Test was the second Test between New Zealand and Sri Lanka at Trust Bank Park (aka Seddon Park

Seddon Park

Seddon Park is a cricket ground in Hamilton, 4th largest city in New Zealand and is renowned for its "village green" setting, affording a picnic atmosphere for spectators. It is the 4th largest proper Cricket Ground in New Zealand. The Stadium was named after the former New Zealand Prime Minister...

), Hamilton

Hamilton, New Zealand

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, in March 1997.

He made his ODI debut as umpire in the match between Pakistan and New Zealand at Jinnah Stadium, Sialkot

Sialkot

Sialkot is a city in Pakistan situated in the north-east of the Punjab province at the foothills of snow-covered peaks of Kashmir near the Chenab river. It is the capital of Sialkot District. The city is about north-west of Lahore and only a few kilometers from Indian-controlled Jammu.The...

 on 16 October 1976.http://www.cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/49/49342.html He umpired in the 1987 Cricket World Cup

1987 Cricket World Cup

The 1987 Cricket World Cup was the fourth edition of the ICC Cricket World Cup tournament. It was held from October 8 to November 8, 1987 in India and Pakistan — the first held outside England. The format was unchanged from 1983 except for a reduction in the number of overs a team played from 60...

 in India, including the final between Australia and England at Eden Gardens

Eden Gardens

Eden Gardens is a cricket ground in Kolkata , India. It is the home of the Bengal cricket team and the Indian Premier League's Kolkata Knight Riders, as well as being a Test and One Day International ground. It is the largest cricket stadium in India by seating capacity...

, Calcutta, on 8 November 1987,http://www.cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/49/49342.html and in the 1996 Cricket World Cup

1996 Cricket World Cup

The 1996 Cricket World Cup, also called the Wills World Cup after its official sponsors, was the sixth edition of the tournament organized by the International Cricket Council . It was the second World Cup to be hosted by Pakistan and India, and for the first time by Sri Lanka...

in Sri Lanka and Pakistan. His last ODI was the third between Pakistan and New Zealand at the National Stadium, Karachi, on 8 December 1996.http://www.cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/63/63159.html