Bilal Moin-ul-Haq Khilji (born 10 September 1975) is a Pakistani

match referee A match referee is an official appointed to oversee professional cricket matches. Match referees for Test matches and One Day Internationals are appointed by the International Cricket Council (ICC). Most matches below international level do not ...

and former

first-class cricket First-class cricket, along with List A cricket and Twenty20 cricket, is one of the highest-standard forms of cricket. A first-class match is one of three or more days' scheduled duration between two sides of eleven players each and is officiall ...

er. He played more than 200 first-class cricket matches for multiple teams and captained

Bahawalpur cricket team Bahawalpur cricket team was a first-class cricket side in Pakistan, representing the city of Bahawalpur. It won the inaugural season of the Quaid-i-Azam Trophy in 1953–54, under the captaincy of Khan Mohammad. Bahawalpur competed in Pakistan's ...

Early life

Khilji was born on 10 September 1975 in

Bahawalpur Bahawalpur () is a city in the Punjab province of Pakistan. With inhabitants as of 2017, it is Pakistan's 11th most populous city. Founded in 1748, Bahawalpur was the capital of the former princely state of Bahawalpur, ruled by the Abbasi fa ...

Punjab, Pakistan Punjab (; , ) is one of the four provinces of Pakistan. Located in central-eastern region of the country, Punjab is the second-largest province of Pakistan by land area and the largest province by population. It shares land borders with the ...

Career

Beginning his

career with Bahawalpur in the 1994/95 season, Khilji played until the 2012/13 season. Between these years, he represented multiple first-class cricket teams, including the

Pakistan National Shipping Corporation The Pakistan National Shipping Corporation (PNSC) is a Pakistani national flag carrier and is one of Government of Pakistan's most profitable state-owned entities, most recently having recorded its highest ever profit of PKR 5.6 billion under the ...

Water and Power Development Authority The Pakistan Water & Power Development Authority (WAPDA; ur, ) is a government-owned public utility maintaining power and water in Pakistan, although it does not manage thermal power. WAPDA includes Tarbela and Mangla dams among its resources. ...

, and

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. His cricket career also took him to

Pakistan Customs Pakistan Customs () is one of the elite cadres of the Civil Services of Pakistan. Pakistan Customs is manned by officers from the Pakistan Customs Service (PCS) which is one of the premier occupational group among Pakistan's civil services. Pr ...

(2003/04),

Multan Multan (; ) is a city in Punjab, Pakistan, on the bank of the Chenab River. Multan is Pakistan's seventh largest city as per the 2017 census, and the major cultural, religious and economic centre of southern Punjab. Multan is one of the List ...

and the

Multan Tigers The Multan Tigers was a Pakistani Domestic T20 and List A Cricket team based in Multan, Punjab, Pakistan. The team was established in 2004 and its home ground is the Multan Cricket Stadium. The manager of the Tigers is Sheikh Saleem. Team Squ ...

(2004/05-2011/12),

Punjab Punjab (; Punjabi: پنجاب ; ਪੰਜਾਬ ; ; also romanised as ''Panjāb'' or ''Panj-Āb'') is a geopolitical, cultural, and historical region in South Asia, specifically in the northern part of the Indian subcontinent, comprising ...

(2006/07), and Baluchistan (2007/08-2008/09). He returned to Bahawalpur Stags in the 2012/13 season and continued until 2014/15.

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* 1975 births Living people Pakistani cricketers Bahawalpur cricketers Pakistan National Shipping Corporation cricketers Water and Power Development Authority cricketers Service Industries cricketers Pakistan Customs cricketers Multan cricketers Baluchistan cricketers Cricket match referees Cricketers from Bahawalpur {{Pakistan-cricket-bio-1970s-stub