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Mohammed Ijaz Butt (born 10 March 1938, Sialkot, Punjab, British India) is a former Pakistani cricketer who played in eight Tests from 1959 to 1962. A wicket keeper and right-handed opening batsman, he scored 279 runs from his brief Test career at a modest batting average of 19.92, however he was a capable wicket keeper with a first class cricket career for Lahore, Multan, Punjab and Rawalpindi where he scored 3,842 runs at 34.30 with a best of 161. For the next few decades, he worked as the director new projects at Service Industries Pakistan, expanding it to one of the largest manufacturer of footwear and motor cycle / cycle tyres and tubes. It is listed on the stock exchanges of Pakistan and has annual sales of Rs. 6 billion.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Service Industries Limited, Lahore, Pakistan )〕 On 6 October 2008 President of Pakistan Asif Ali Zardari, patron of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) appointed Butt as chairman of the PCB.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Ijaz Butt named new PCB chairman -DAWN – Sport; October 08, 2008 )〕 He has been involved in several controversies during his career, presiding over Pakistan during a time when security concerns—including a shooting incident involving the Sri Lankan tour bus—stripped the country of several international fixtures. He has made several attacks on current and former PCB officials and the Senate of Pakistan, and was involved in match-fixing allegations during a tour of England in 2010. His accusations of similar match fixing by the England team, though later retracted, let to speculation about his future with the PCB.〔 ==Playing career== Butt was born in Sialkot, Punjab in 1938. He began his first class career against a touring Marylebone Cricket Club squad on 16 January 1956 while playing for Pakistan Universities.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=First-Class Matches played by Ijaz Butt )〕 Batting at number three, he scored 35 and 97, falling three short of a debut century thanks to the bowling of Billy Sutcliffe and the catching hands of Ken Barrington. The match ended in a draw.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Scorecard: Pakistan Universities v Marylebone Cricket Club – Marylebone Cricket Club in Pakistan 1955/56 )〕 A month later he faced the MCC once more, this time for Punjab: he scored 43 and 18 as the MCC triumphed by an innings and 29 runs.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Scorecard: Punjab v Marylebone Cricket Club – Marylebone Cricket Club in Pakistan 1955/56 )〕 Butt went on to make several successful appearances in the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy over the winter of 1956/57, scoring 225 runs at 56.25 including a maiden century of 147 runs.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Batting and Fielding for Punjab – Quaid-e-Azam Trophy 1956/57 )〕 He promptly toured the West Indies but only featured in one first class match before returning〔 to the 1958/59 Quaid-e-Azam Trophy where he had a less successful second season: 73 runs from three matches at 24.33, failing to pass 50.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Batting and Fielding for Punjab – Quaid-e-Azam Trophy 1957/58 )〕 He nevertheless went straight into the Test team for the home series against the West Indies.〔 Butt played Test cricket between 1959 and 1962. He made his Test debut at Karachi on 20 February 1959. The tourists, bowled out cheaply for 146 in the first innings, conceded a 10-wicket defeat with Butt scoring 14 and 41 not out as a specialist opener.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=1st Test: Pakistan v West Indies at Karachi, Feb 20–25, 1959 )〕 He scored two, 21, 47 * and two in the rest of the series. Between 26 March and 4 December he played two more Tests against Australia, scoring a career-best 58 in the second Test. He was then left out of the team until 1962, where he toured England for three Test matches. He struggled, scoring 10, 33, one, six, 10 and six before being dropped.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Batting records )〕 Following the end of his international career, despite scoring over 1,000 first class runs in the England tour including two centuries, he made only sporadic appearances in Pakistani domestic cricket. He appeared in only three Quaid-e-Azam Trophy matches between 1963 and 1965; an invitational XI match for the Punjab Governor against Pakistan Universities in 1966; Pakistan versus The Rest in 1967; and lastly one appearance in the Ayub Trophy on 15 January 1968 where he scored 40 and 15 for the Lahore Reds.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Scorecard: Rawalpindi v Lahore Reds – Ayub Trophy 1967/68 )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ijaz Butt」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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