Masood Salahuddin (24 December 1915 – 21 March 2006) was a Pakistani cricket umpire.
[1] He had a long playing career in first-class cricket as a pace bowler, beginning in the Ranji Trophy in 1934-35 for United Provinces, and continuing after independence of Pakistan as captain of Railways until 1958-59.
For Railways his captaincy was more important: beginning his career there at the age of 37, in 10 matches he bowled only 102 overs and took 12 wickets at 24.41,[3] and sometimes made useful runs in the lower order, 275 at 17.18.
Although he had never umpired in first-class cricket, he had just captained North Zone against the Indians a few days previously,[4] and was one of the Test selectors, called upon to umpire the Fifth Test in the 1954-55 series, with the approval of the Indian team.
"[5] He may have been being diplomatic: his obituary in Wisden gives the reason for the emergency as "a row over the appointed officials", and adds that he "showed his mettle" when he gave Abdul Kardar, the Pakistani captain, out stumped for 93.