Khalid "Billy" Ibadulla is a former Pakistan

Pakistan

Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...

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Cricket

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er and TVNZ cricket commentator. He played in four Tests

Test cricket

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 between 1964 and 1967. Most of his cricket was played for Warwickshire

Warwickshire County Cricket Club

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, for whom he appeared between 1954 and 1972. He moved to New Zealand

New Zealand

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 in 1976, and in 1980 was living in Dunedin

Dunedin

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, coaching cricketers.

He has coached some of New Zealand's top cricketers, including Glenn Turner

Glenn Turner

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, Ken Rutherford

Ken Rutherford (cricketer)

Kenneth Robert Rutherford is a former New Zealand cricketer who enjoyed a ten-year career with the national team, and was captain for a period. Aged 19, with a solitary first class season behind him, he was asked to open the batting for New Zealand against West Indies when the latter were at the...

 and Chris Cairns.

Ibadulla is the subject of a long-running error in the Wisden records section. He was out handled the ball at Courtaulds, Coventry

Coventry

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in 1963 when playing for Warwickshire against Hampshire and not obstructing the field as reported in the 1964 Wisden's report of the game and then repeated in the records section from 1967 until 2010. An erratum is scheduled to appear in the 2011 edition.

He also taught briefly at St Dunstan's College in London, as a Physical Education teacher in the early 70's