Sohail Butt is a former international cricket

Cricket

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er for the United Arab Emirates. After one first-class

First-class cricket

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 game and one List A game for Lahore City Blues in 1985–86, Butt next appeared on cricket radar playing for his adopted country of the United Arab Emirates in two One Day Internationals in the Pepsi Austral-Asia Cup in 1993–94, where he played against India

Indian cricket team

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 and Pakistan

Pakistani cricket team

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 in Sharjah

Sharjah (city)

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, UAE. Butt also competed in the 1993–94 ICC Trophy

ICC Trophy

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.