Shavir Tarapore, is an India

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n One Day International and Twenty20

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 cricket umpire

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, who has umpired 9 ODIs and 2 T20Is.

Shavir Tarapore first stood in an International ODI in 1999. He has since umpired 9 ODIs and 2 T20Is.

He also played a few games for Karnataka in a career spanning from 1980/81 to 1986/87. He played 6 matches, scoring 20 runs with a high score of 15. He also picked up 9 wickets with his legbreaks at an average of 37.66. He took 3 catches in those 6 games.

Shavir Tarapore was inducted into the ICC's International Panel of Umpires

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, as a replacement for Suresh Shastri

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His father, the Late Mr. Keki Tarapore, was Indian cricketer Rahul Dravid's childhood coach.