Mahboob Shah

[1] His family moved from Delhi to Lahore and finally settled in Quetta after the partition of India.

[1] Shah began his cricket career in the 1950s as a right-arm medium-fast bowler before transitioning to a middle-order batsman.

He achieved a batting average of 21.10 in 21 innings, including a high score of 152, his only first-class century, for Karachi University against Sindh University in February 1960;[2] as a medium-fast bowler, he took 12 wickets at a bowling average of 22.58, including 6/14 for Karachi C against Sind A in October 1957.

He made his ODI debut as an umpire in the match between Pakistan and New Zealand at Jinnah Stadium, Sialkot on 16 October 1976.

His last ODI was the third match in the Pakistan and New Zealand series, at National Stadium, Karachi, on 8 December 1996.