Sikander Zulfiqar (born 28 March 1997) is a Dutch

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er who plays for the

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. He made his

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debut against the United Arab Emirates on 3 February 2016. He made his first-class debut against Hong Kong in the 2015–17 ICC Intercontinental Cup tournament on 10 February 2017. He made his

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debut against Zimbabwe on 20 June 2017. On 17 July 2017, he played in the same match with his brothers

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and

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, when they faced the

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at the VRA Cricket Ground,

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. It was the first instance of three siblings playing for a professional cricket team in the same game. In July 2019, he was selected to play for the Amsterdam Knights in the inaugural edition of the

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cricket tournament. However, the following month the tournament was cancelled. In April 2020, he was one of seventeen Dutch-based cricketers to be named in the team's senior squad.

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* 1997 births Living people Dutch cricketers Netherlands Twenty20 International cricketers Place of birth missing (living people) Dutch people of Pakistani descent Sportspeople of Pakistani descent {{Netherlands-cricket-bio-stub