Dilbar Hussain (born 20 February 1993) is a Pakistani cricketer. He made his Twenty20 debut on 25 January 2020, for the Melbourne Stars in the 2019âÂÂ20 Big Bash League season. He was brought into the team's squad as a replacement for Haris Rauf, who was called up for international duty with Pakistan.
He was part of the Lahore Qalandars' <bdi>Players Development Program</bdi> squad after previously working on agricultural land in his village near Faisalabad. He impressed Qalandars coach Aaqib Javed in his first hard-ball game in Faisalabad, Punjab in 2018 and toured Australia with the Qalandars development squad in the same year. He made his first-class debut on 31 October 2020, for Southern Punjab, in the 2020âÂÂ21 Quaid-e-Azam Trophy.
Born in a village of Tehsil Jaranwala Faisalabad District, Punjab, Pakistan, he used to work on his agricultural land there before getting his first professional cricket contract. His father is a farmer.