Rusi Nausherwan Dinshaw (7 February 1928 – 24 March 2014) was a Pakistani

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from 1948 to 1952. A left-handed batsman, Dinshaw played in both unofficial

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toured Pakistan in 1949-50, without making a substantial score. Later he was a member of the first Pakistan Test squad, which toured India in 1952–53. He never played in a Test, but he is the only Parsi to have ever been selected in a Pakistan

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squad.

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