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Azhar Shafiq

cricketer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ4832523 ↗
Source-derived summary

Mohammad Azhar Shafiq (born 31 December 1978 in Sadiqabad, Punjab, Pakistan) is a Pakistani former cricketer. He is a left-handed batsman and a right-arm medium pace bowler. He has played 131 first-class and 60 List A matches for various teams in Pakistan. He represented Pakistan at the 1998 Commonwealth Games.

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The public source identifies “Azhar Shafiq” as cricketer. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Azhar, Shafiq and cricketer.

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—1978, 1998—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1973-12-31. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Azhar, Shafiq 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 Apr 30, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4832523. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1978 and 1998.

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This entry incorporates text from “Azhar Shafiq” 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.