Faisal Afridi (born 31 December 1977) is a Pakistani cricket umpire and former
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. He played 53
first-class and 35
List A
List A cricket is a classification of the limited-overs (one-day) form of the sport of cricket, with games lasting up to eight hours. List A cricket includes One Day International (ODI) matches and various domestic competitions in which the numbe ...
matches between 1998 and 2008.
He is now an
umpire and stood in the match between
National Bank of Pakistan and
Water and Power Development Authority in the
2017–18 Quaid-e-Azam Trophy
The 2017–18 Quaid-e-Azam Trophy was the 60th edition of the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy, Pakistan's domestic first-class cricket competition. It was contested by 16 teams representing eight regional associations and eight departments, and took place ...
on 21 October 2017.
In December 2018, he was one of the on-field umpires for the final of the
2018–19 Quaid-e-Azam Trophy
The 2018–19 Quaid-e-Azam Trophy was a first-class domestic cricket competition that took place in Pakistan from 1 September to 8 December 2018. Following the conclusion of each match, the teams played each other in a List A fixture in the 20 ...
.
In October 2021, Afridi was promoted to the
International Panel of ICC Umpires, replacing
Shozab Raza. He stood in his first
Twenty20 International (T20I) match, between
Pakistan and
England on 23 September 2022.
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1977 births
Living people
Pakistani cricketers
Pakistani cricket umpires
Pakistani Twenty20 International cricket umpires
Place of birth missing (living people)
Khan Research Laboratories cricketers
Sargodha cricketers
Zarai Taraqiati Bank Limited cricketers
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