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William Fazackerley

cricketer (born 1998)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 8, 2026
Entity authorityQ32271119
Source-derived summary

William N Fazackerley (born 19 June 1998) is a former English cricketer. He made his first-class debut for Leicestershire in the 2017 County Championship on 5 July 2017. Fazackerley retired from cricket in January 2018.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “William Fazackerley” as cricketer (born 1998). Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

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, 2018—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1998-06-19. The account is most persuasive where William, Fazackerley and cricketer can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as cricketer (born 1998). Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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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 Sep 8, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q32271119. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1998, 2017 and 2018.

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This entry incorporates text from William Fazackerley” 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.