Nilayananda Dutta (1952/3 – 19 September 2021) was an Indian lawyer, cricket administrator, and

cricket umpire In cricket, an umpire (from the Old French meaning not a peer, i.e. not a member of one of the teams, impartial) is a person who has the authority to make decisions about events on the cricket field according to the ''Laws of Cricket''. Besides ...

. The only international match he officiated in was a

One Day International One Day International (ODI) is a format of cricket, played between two teams with international status, in which each team faces a fixed number of fifty overs, with the game lasting up to 7 hours. The World Cup, generally held every four yea ...

in 1990. He was a senior advocate in the

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and an official of the Assam Cricket Association. He was a member of the three-member

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(headed by Justice Mukul Mudgal and comprising former Additional Solicitor General of India L Nageswara Rao as the other member) formed to probe the

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1950s births Year of birth uncertain 2021 deaths Indian One Day International cricket umpires Place of birth missing {{India-cricket-bio-stub

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