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Nasir Khan (Afghan cricketer)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 8, 2026
Entity authorityQ28549875 ↗
Source-derived summary

Nasir Khan (born 29 December 1998) is an Afghan cricketer. He List A debut for Afghanistan A came against Zimbabwe A during their tour to Zimbabwe on 29 January 2017. He made his Twenty20 debut for Boost Defenders in the 2017 Shpageeza Cricket League on 13 September 2017. Khan's made his first-class debut for Speen Ghar Region in the 2017–18 Ahmad Shah Abdali 4-day Tournament on 20 October 2017.

In November 2019, he was named in Afghanistan's squad for the 2019 ACC Emerging Teams Asia Cup in Bangladesh.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Nasir Khan (Afghan cricketer)” is cricketer. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Nasir, Khan and Afghan, 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—1998, 2017, 2019—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1998-12-29. For this dossier, Nasir, Khan and Afghan is the immediate research focus.
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The phrase “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.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 8, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q28549875. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1998, 2017 and 2019.

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This entry incorporates text from “Nasir Khan (Afghan cricketer)” 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.