Ikram Butt
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| Full name | Mohammed Ikram Butt | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 25 October 1968 Leeds, West Riding of Yorkshire, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Position | Wing | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Ikram Butt (born 25 October 1968) is an English former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1980s and 1990s. Of Pakistani descent, he was the first south Asian to play either code of international rugby for England in 1995. He played at representative level for England, and at club level for Featherstone Rovers, Leeds, London Broncos, Huddersfield Giants and Hunslet Hawks as a wing.[2]
Ikram Butt was born in Leeds, West Riding of Yorkshire, on 25 October 1968. His father Mohammad Butt was a boxer for the Pakistan Air Force who taught his four sons to be involved in sports early on; he died when Butt was 12.[3]
Whilst with the London Broncos, he was convicted of perverting the course of justice and spent three months in prison as a result of a driving misdemeanour.[3]
He is the founder of the British Asian Rugby Association, and the British Pakistani rugby league team.
In 2002-3 Ikram joined grass-roots side Victoria Rangers ARLFC for three seasons. During this time he showed he hadn't lost any of his skill from his professional days, The main reason for joining the Vics was to link up with Nigel Goodings who had formed a successful team at Victoria Rangers.
In 2009 Ikram released an autobiography called Tries and Prejudice.[4] The book has sold close to 1,000 copies with more still to be sold, he gave all the proceeds to charity. The book's foreword is written by Bollywood star Rahul Bose.[5]
He currently works for Leeds Rugby as a Manager of the connecting communities project, as Sports Campaign Manager as a consultant for White Ribbon Campaign, and is vice president of "World Rugby League"
