Mohammad Irfan Ismail (born 14 February 1992) is a Pakistani

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er who has played limited overs and Twenty20 matches for the

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and a single first-class match for Quetta. From Quetta, a city in Balochistan,Irfan Ismail
– CricketArchive. Retrieved 16 December 2014. Irfan debuted for Quetta District in under-19 inter-district matches in mid-2007, at the age of 15. He made his first-class debut for Quetta in February 2009, five days after his seventeenth birthday, playing against Hyderabad in the Quaid-i-Azam Trophy. A

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spinner and left-handed lower-order batsman, he failed to take a wicket from 14 overs on debut. While batting, he scored five runs in the first innings and recorded a golden duck in the second. Irfan made his limited-overs debut the following month, playing five matches for the Quetta Bears in the Royal Bank of Scotland Cup. Despite his young age, he served as the side's

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, with wicket-keeper Bismillah Khan as his vice-captain. Irfan took seven wickets during the tournament, with his best figures 3/57 from ten overs against the

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. In a later match, against the

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, he made his highest score, 17 runs from 22 balls. The Dolphins had earlier scored 364/2 from their 50 overs, with Irfan's opposing captain, Khalid Latif, making 204 not out, a rare one-day double century. Later in the 2008–09 season, Irfan played two Twenty20 matches for the Quetta Bears franchise in the RBS Twenty-20 Cup, against the Faisalabad Wolves and the Lahore Lions. He took only a single wicket during the tournament. Mohammad Irfan Ismail (born 1988), another left-arm orthodox-spinner, also made a first-class appearance for Quetta during the 2008–09 season. To avoid confusion, Irfan Ismail (born 1988) is sometimes referred to as "Irfan Ismail, Sr.", while Irfan Ismail (born 1992), the subject of this article, is sometimes referred to as "Irfan Ismail, Jr.".(22 December 2008)
"Regional squads named for Quaid Trophy"
– Dawn.com. Retrieved 16 December 2014.

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