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Afghan cricket team in the United Arab Emirates in 2011–12

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 21, 2025
Entity authorityQ4689188 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Afghanistan national cricket team toured the United Arab Emirates (UAE) from 5 to 12 October 2011. The tour consisted of one ICC Intercontinental Cup match and a pair of ICC Intercontinental Cup One-Day matches against the United Arab Emirates national cricket team.

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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—2011—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Afghan, cricket and team is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “Afghan cricket team in the United Arab Emirates in 2011–12” 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.