Who is Rashid Khan
Rashid Khan Arman aka Rashid Khan is an Afghan professional cricketer who plays for the Afghanistan national team as a bowler. Also, he signed with Comilla Victorians, Sunrisers Hyderabad, Guyana Amazon Warriors, Band-e-Amir Dragons, Adelaide Strikers, Quetta Gladiators and Sussex County Cricket Club.
Khan is the youngest and fastest bowler to take 100 wickets in ODIs. It took him 44 matches to reach the milestone, breaking the previous record set by Australian cricketer Mitchell Starc at 52 matches. In 2018, Khan became the highest bowler to take 50 wickets in T20Is, spanning two years and 220 days.
Early life of Rashid Khan
Rashid Khan was born on September 20, 1989 in Nangarhar, Afghanistan. His sign is Virgo. Talking about his country, Khan is an Afghan and he is from South Asia.
He graduated from Nangarhar High School.
His Successful Carrer
- Cricket was in a very young state in Afghanistan when Rashid started his career in the game, he got the opportunity to play for the national team for the first time in 2015. He made his ODI debut against another weak side, Zimbabwe on October 18, 2015. About a week later, he also made his Twenty20 (T20I) debut against Zimbabwe.
- Afghanistan is well-known as a mixed nation when it comes to international cricket, which means that it is among the weakest teams. Therefore, most of the international matches he played were against weaker teams like Ireland and Zimbabwe. Rashid is regarded as a talented all-rounder who is a gambler.
- He took his first 5-wicket haul against Ireland in March 2017 conceding just 3 runs. It was the best performance by any Afghan player in a T20I match. It is also the joint fourth best score by any bowler in T20I matches. He also became the only player to take 5 wickets in just 2 overs in a T20I match.
- In the same tour, Rashid took 6 wickets in ODI matches. At that time, Afghanistan began to be recognized as an important group.
- In June 2017, the Afghan team played against West Indies, a stronger team. In one of the ODI matches, Rashid took 7 wickets for 18 runs. He became the first player from an allied country to take 7 wickets in an ODI. Afghanistan ended up winning the match, to everyone’s surprise, and Rashid was called “the player”.
- Recognizing this young talent, ‘ICC’ honored Rashid as ‘Associate Cricketer of the Year’ in 2018. world” 2018. The ICC has also included Rashid in the list of players to watch in the qualifiers.
- In June 2018, the Afghanistan team qualified to play Test Cricket. Their first match in India was also Rashid’s first Test. However, his performance in the game was terrible. In February 2019, Rashid played a test match for Ireland. In the second leg of the match, he took 5 wickets. It is the first 5-wicket haul by an Afghanistan player in an international test match.
- So far, Rashid has played 57 ODI matches and scored 782 runs, averaging 23.69. He scored half a century and was yet to reach his first century. He took 123 wickets, at an average of 15.00, and had four wickets. He played 38 T20I matches and scored 123 runs, with an average of 13.66.
- He is yet to score a half century in T20I series. However, his football performance is better. He took 75 T20I wickets, with a bowling average of 11.56. Rashid was also sued by international and civil society organizations. In 2016, he played for Bangladesh team “Comilla Victorians”, as part of “Bangladesh Cricket League”.
- He has been linked with Caribbean Premier League team Guyana Amazon Warriors, IPL team Sunrisers Hyderabad and Adelaide Strikers Big Bash League team.
- Locally, he plays for “Kabul Zwanan” of “Afghanistan Premier League”.
Records by Rashid Khan
Rashid Khan has many records to his credit as he is a famous player for the Afghanistan cricket team.
Rashid Khan holds the record for the best bowling tricks for an associated country in One Day Internationals. He reached this record in 2017 against West Indies.
Rashid Khan also holds the record for the youngest player to become the number one player in the ICC One Day International Rankings. He is also the youngest player to achieve number 1 in the ICC T20I Bowlers Rankings.
Rashid Khan is also the youngest player (age 19 165) to lead an international team. Rashid also holds the record for the shortest time to reach the 50 wicket mark in T20 Internationals. It took only 2 years and 220 days to do that. Rashid Khan is also the youngest player to take 100 wickets in One Day Internationals. He is also the most accomplished player in just 44 games. Rashid also holds the record for the best bowling figures for Afghanistan with 5 wickets for 3 runs.
He is also the first player to take 5 wickets in just 2 overs in a T20I. Along with Irish player Paul Stirling, Rashid Khan holds the record for most wickets by different teams in one international match. Both the players have taken six wickets in the match. He is also one of the rare players to have taken four wickets in four balls.
Rashid Khan also holds the record for most points scored in a first Test match (152 points). He also holds the record for the highest score in a World Cup with 110 runs in 9 overs.
Rashid Khan is the first Afghanistan bowler to take 5 wickets and 10 wickets in a test match. He is also the first player to take 10 wickets as captain in a Test match.
Rashid Khan is also the first player to score a half-century and take 10 wickets in a Test match. Rashid Khan also holds the record for the first hat-trick of the Caribbean Premier League. He scored his hat trick in the 2017 season. Rashid also scored a hat-trick in the Big Bash League for the Adelaide Strikers against the Sydney Sixers in 2020.
Rashid is the fastest bowler to dismiss 100 in T20 Internationals. The all-rounder played 53 matches to better former Sri Lanka captain Lasith Malinga’s record of 76 matches.
Rashid Khan recorded the best T20 bowling figures of 6/17 in a match for Adelaide Strikers against Brisbane Heat in the 2021-22 BBL season. Rashid Khan is the fastest batsman to reach 100 IPL wickets along with Amit Mishra.
Rashid Khan is one of the four bowlers in the world to claim more than 450 wickets in T20 cricket, including T20 internationals and franchise cricket. Rashid has the second best batting average – 18.65 – in ODI cricket.
