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Ali Sarfraz

Pakistani cricketer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 15, 2026
Entity authorityQ21872670 ↗
Source-derived summary

Ali Sarfraz (born 21 December 1987) is a Pakistani cricketer who plays for Islamabad. He was the leading run-scorer for Islamabad in the 2018–19 Quaid-e-Azam Trophy, with 487 runs in five matches.

In September 2019, he was named in Northern's squad for the 2019–20 Quaid-e-Azam Trophy tournament.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Ali Sarfraz” is pakistani cricketer. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Sarfraz, Pakistani and cricketer, not as a finished interpretation.

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—1987, 2018, 2019—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1987-12-21. For this dossier, Sarfraz, Pakistani and cricketer is the immediate research focus.
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The phrase “pakistani cricketer” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 15, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q21872670. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1987, 2018 and 2019.

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This entry incorporates text from “Ali Sarfraz” 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.