# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/aarif-sheikh
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:05:20.595Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/aarif-sheikh"
name: "Aarif Sheikh"
slug: "aarif-sheikh"
description: "Aarif Sheikh is a Nepalese cricketer, who has been a former vice-captain of the Nepal under-19 cricket team and currently plays for the senior team. Aarif is a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium pace bowler. He made his List A debut for Nepal in the 2015 ICC World Cricket League Division Two tournament against Namibia on 21 January 2015. He was one of the eleven cricketers to play in Nepal's first ever One Day International (ODI) match, against the Netherlands, in August 2018."
tagline: "Nepalese cricketer"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1997-10-05"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.06
  momentum:             18.1895777178796
  historical:           8.252848
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://x.com/AarifCric"
    handle:    "AarifCric"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "আরিফ শেখ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "आरिफ शेख"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "आरिफ शेख"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ఆరిఫ్ షేక్"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump