Faisal Athar is a Pakistani cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-pace bowler, who also plays as a wicket-keeper. He played one One-Day International in 2003 for the losing Pakistani side in the final of the Bank Alfalah Cup of 2003. He has played extensively in the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy since debuting in the competition for Hyderabad in 1999. He has also participated in the Tissot Cup, the National Bank of Pakistan Cup (for the Pakistan National Shipping Corporation as well as the Public Works Department), and, in 2005, the ABN-AMRO Cup, where his Hyderabad team lost to the Duckworth-Lewis method against the Lahore Lions. Most recently, he has played in the 2005/06 Pentangular Cup tournament for the National Bank of Pakistan.