{
  "id": 10416911,
  "title": "Abdullah Shafique Siblings: Get to Know Zainab and Hassan Shafique",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/28/abdullah-shafique-siblings-get-to-know-zainab-and-hassan-shafique",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-28T09:28:53.000Z",
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  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Abdullah Shafique is a Pakistani cricketer born on 20 November 1999 in Sialkot, Punjab, Pakistan. He is a right-handed top-order batsman and occasional right-arm off-break bowler who represents the Pakistan national team across formats. He currently plays for Lahore Qalandars in the Pakistan Super League. Abdullah was raised in a cricket-oriented Punjabi Muslim Gujjar family and began shadow practice with a plastic bat at the age of three under his father's guidance. He started his cricketing journey at the Aamir Waseem International Cricket Academy in Sialkot and later represented Pakistan at the under-19 level.\n\nAbdullah is the eldest of three children. His siblings, Zainab and Hassan Shafique, maintain a low public profile, with details about their personal and professional lives largely undisclosed. Their father, Shafiq Ahmed, a former first-class cricketer turned coach at GEMS Modern Academy in Dubai, has spoken highly of Abdullah as the eldest of his three offspring.\n\nShafique made his first-class debut for Central Punjab in the 2019-20 Quaid-e-Azam Trophy and scored 133 runs. He made his T20 debut in the 2020-21 National T20 Cup and became the first Pakistani batsman to score centuries on both his first-class and T20 debuts. He has since played for various teams including Balochistan, Lahore Qalandars, and Yorkshire, contributing to their consecutive PSL titles in 2022 and 2023. Internationally, Abdullah debuted in T20Is against Zimbabwe on 10 November 2020 and made his Test debut against Bangladesh on 26 November 2021. He has been a regular opener in Test cricket, scoring notable centuries against Sri Lanka and Australia, and also made an impressive ODI World Cup debut.",
  "summary": "Abdullah Shafique is a Pakistani international cricketer born on 20 November 1999 in Sialkot, Punjab, Pakistan. A right-handed top-order batsman and occasional right-arm off-break bowler, he represents the Pakistan national team across formats and plays for Lahore Qalandars in the Pakistan Super League. Raised in a cricket-oriented Punjabi Muslim Gujjar family, he began shadow practice [...] The…",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}