Abdul Shakoor (born 21 March 1988) is a

cricket Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striki ...

er who played for the

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. He made his

Twenty20 International A Twenty20 International (T20I) is a form of cricket, played between two of the international members of the International Cricket Council (ICC), in which each team faces a maximum of twenty overs. The matches have top-class status and are the ...

debut against Scotland in the

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tournament on 9 July 2015. He made his

One Day International A One Day International (ODI) is a form of limited overs cricket, played between two teams with international status, in which each team faces a fixed number of overs, currently 50, with the game lasting up to 9 hours. The Cricket World C ...

debut against

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in the 2015–17 ICC World Cricket League Championship on 16 November 2015. In August 2018, he was named in the United Arab Emirates' squad for the

2018 Asia Cup Qualifier The 2018 Asia Cup Qualifier was a cricket tournament that was held in Malaysia from 29 August to 6 September 2018. The event served as the qualifier for the 2018 Asia Cup. The top two teams from the group stage met in the final, with the winner ...

tournament. He played for the Maratha Arabians in the opening game of the

2021 T10 League 2021 Abu Dhabi T10 was the fourth season of the Abu Dhabi T10. The matches had a 10-over-a-side format with a time duration of 90 minutes. The tournament was played as a round robin followed by semifinals and the final. It was originally schedul ...

in Abu Dhabi, winning the power hitter and player of the match awards. He opened the batting and top scored with 73 runs from 28 balls, his first fifty runs coming from only 14 balls. Abdul Shakoor was born and raised in

Sharjah Sharjah (; ar, ٱلشَّارقَة ', Gulf Arabic: ''aš-Šārja'') is the third-most populous city in the United Arab Emirates, after Dubai and Abu Dhabi, forming part of the Dubai-Sharjah-Ajman metropolitan area. Sharjah is the capital o ...

. His father moved to the UAE from Pakistan to work for the

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* 1988 births Living people Emirati cricketers United Arab Emirates One Day International cricketers United Arab Emirates Twenty20 International cricketers People from Sharjah Pakistani expatriate sportspeople in the United Arab Emirates {{UnitedArabEmirates-cricket-bio-stub