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Seetharam Prabhu

cricketer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 31, 2026
Entity authorityQ28542601 ↗
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NR Seetharam Prabhu (born 25 August 1964) is an Indian cricket umpire. He has officiated 28 First-class matches and 18 List A matches. He made his debut as an umpire in major domestic cricket on 12 November 1999 in a one-day match between Haryana and Himachal Pradesh.

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1964, 1999—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1964-08-25. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Seetharam, Prabhu and cricketer providing the first useful test.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 31, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q28542601. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1964 and 1999.

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This entry incorporates text from “Seetharam Prabhu” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.