Bilal Mustapha Shafayat (born 10 July 1984) is an English former first-class cricketer.
[2] He was educated at the Nottingham Bluecoat School,[1] but left after he found a place in cricket.
[citation needed] He started his career at Nottinghamshire but moved to Northamptonshire in 2005.
One early highlight of his career was a catch made for England as a substitute fielder in a Test against New Zealand in 2004.
He played second eleven cricket for Hampshire at the start of 2011 and averaged 239.5 in his two matches before returning to Northamptonshire on a match-by-match basis during the 2011 season,[6] playing for the Second XI and the first team in Twenty20 and List A matches during June and July 2011.