Fahad Afdhal Alhashmi is a United Arab Emirates

United Arab Emirates

The United Arab Emirates, abbreviated as the UAE, or shortened to "the Emirates", is a state situated in the southeast of the Arabian Peninsula in Western Asia on the Persian Gulf, bordering Oman, and Saudi Arabia, and sharing sea borders with Iraq, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, and Iran.The UAE is a...

 cricket

Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

er. A right-handed batsman and right-arm fast-medium

Fast bowling

Fast bowling, sometimes known as pace bowling, is one of the two main approaches to bowling in the sport of cricket. The other is spin bowling...

 bowler, he has played for the United Arab Emirates national cricket team since 2005, and first played One Day International (ODI) cricket in 2008.

Biography

Born in Dubai

Dubai

Dubai is a city and emirate in the United Arab Emirates . The emirate is located south of the Persian Gulf on the Arabian Peninsula and has the largest population with the second-largest land territory by area of all the emirates, after Abu Dhabi...

 in 1982, Fahad Alhashmi first played for the UAE in the 2005 ICC Intercontinental Cup

2005 ICC Intercontinental Cup

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 semi-final against Ireland. He played once against Namibia

Namibia national cricket team

The Namibia cricket team is the team that represents the country of Namibia in international cricket matches. It is governed by Cricket Namibia, an associate member of the International Cricket Council since 1992 and became part of the High Performance Program in 2007. They took part in the 2003...

 in 2006, once against Bermuda in 2007 and four matches in the tournament in 2008.

In March 2008, he played for the UAE in matches against English county

County cricket

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 sides Essex

Essex County Cricket Club

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, Lancashire

Lancashire County Cricket Club

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 and Yorkshire

Yorkshire County Cricket Club

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. He made his ODI debut against Bangladesh in the 2008 Asia Cup

2008 Asia Cup

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 and most recently represented his country in the 2008 ACC Trophy

ACC Trophy

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Elite tournament.