Masudur Rahman (born 13 April 1975) is a Bangladeshi international cricket umpire and former
first-class cricket
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er.
A right-handed batsman and off-break bowler, he made his first-class debut for Dhaka Metropolis in 2000/01 and played for Barisal Division in 2001/02 and Dhaka Division from 2003/04 to 2004/05. He scored one first-class fifty, a knock of 59 against his former team
Dhaka Division
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and took 4 for 102 against
Chittagong Division
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.
Soon after retiring, Masudur became an
umpire
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The term derives from the Old French nonper, ''non'', "not" and ''per'', ...
.
Umpiring career
He made his List A umpiring debut in November 2007 and his First-class debut in December 2008. He stood in the one-day tour match between Bangladesh Cricket Board Select XI and England XI during
England's tour to Bangladesh in October 2016.
On 21 January 2018, he stood in his first
One Day International
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(ODI) match in the fixture between Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe in the
2017–18 Bangladesh Tri-Nation Series.
On 18 February 2018, he stood in his first
Twenty20 International
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(T20I) match in the fixture between
Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.
In January 2020, he was named as one of the sixteen umpires for the
2020 Under-19 Cricket World Cup
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tournament in South Africa. He was one of the two on field umpire for the
2022 Asia Cup final
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in
Dubai
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on 11 September 2022.
See also
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List of One Day International cricket umpires
This is a list of cricket umpires
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List of Twenty20 International cricket umpires
This is a list of cricket umpires
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References
https://masudur.org
External links
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1975 births
Living people
Bangladeshi cricketers
Bangladeshi cricket umpires
Bangladeshi One Day International cricket umpires
Bangladeshi Twenty20 International cricket umpires
Dhaka Metropolis cricketers
Barisal Division cricketers
Dhaka Division cricketers
People from Faridpur District