Aleem Dar is a brilliant international Umpire who started playing cricket in his teenage. He started playing cricket as a batsman. He soon switched to Umpiring and proved himself to be an excellent umpire who represented Pakistan internationally. Aleem Dar has upmired uncountable matches. According to ESPN sports, he umpired 145 test matches. 231 ODI matches, 72 T20 matches and 5 WT20 matches. He retired in March 2023. On 16 March 2023, Dar stepped down from the elite panel of umpires after a 19-year career. Steve Buckner is Aleem Dar’s role model.
Lately, the brilliant Umpire appeared in Samaa TV’s show Samaa Lifestyle. In the show, the umpire shared the tragic story of losing his new born daughter while he was on his international trip.
Talking about it, Aleem Dar said, “In 2003, I was umpiring for World Cup matches. It was an international tour and the start of my career. I was the youngest umpire in the panel, with 12 international matches under my belt. It was the turning point of my life. My seven-month-old daughter passed away while I was busy with the World Cup. My wife didn’t tell me the news, and my family hid it from me for a month because they knew it was the start of my career. I learned about it from someone who met me in Johannesburg, despite my father’s strict instructions not to tell me. The World Cup was almost over by then, but when I heard the news, I called my wife, and she started crying. After that, I took a flight to Pakistan”. Here is the link to the video:
