Rashid Khan Arman is an Afghan cricketer and the current vice-captain of the national team. He was one of the eleven cricketers to play in Afghanistan’s first ever Test match, against India, in June 2018. In September 2019, he led the team in the one-off Test against Bangladesh, and at the age of 20 years and 350 days, became the youngest criceter to captain a Test match side. Khan was named the ICC Men’s T20I Player of the Decade.
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Rashid Khan Arman is an Afghan cricketer and the current vice-captain of the national team. He bowls right-arm leg spin and bats right-handed. He was one of the eleven cricketers to play in Afghanistan’s first ever Test match, against India, in June 2018. He returned the most expensive bowling figures by a debutant in a nation’s maiden Test match. In September 2019, he led the team in the one-off Test against Bangladesh, and at the age of 20 years and 350 days, became the youngest criceter to captain a Test match side. In December 2020, Khan was named the ICC Men’s T20I Player of the Decade. He made his One Day International debut for Afghanistan against Zimbabwe on 18 October 2015. In March 2018, during the 2018 Cricket World Cup Qualifier, he captained Afghanistan for the first time in an ODI match. He became the fastest and youngest bowler to take 100 wickets in ODIs when he dismissed Shai Hope, breaking the previous record of 52 matches, set by Mitchell Starc of Australia. In April 2019, the Afghanistan Cricket Board named Khan as the team’s new T 20I captain, replacing Asghar Afghan.
Khan was also appointed as the vice- captain of the ODI squad. Following the World Cup, he was appointed as captain of Afghanistan cricket team across all formats. In January 2018, the International Cricket Council named him as the Associate Cricketer of the Year for the 2016-17 season. He idolised Pakistani all-rounder Shahid Afridi, from whom he stylised his bowling action. Khan idolised Mohammad Nabi and Mujeeb Ur Rahman, and Nepal’s Sandeep Lamichhane. He has ten siblings and grew up playing cricket with his brothers in Jalalabad, Eastern Afghanistan. His family fled the Afghan war and lived in Pakistan for a few years. They later returned to Afghanistan, resuming their normal life with Rashid continuing his schooling. In June, he took five wickets for 18 runs against the West Indies at Gros Islet, finishing with the fourth best ODI bowling figures and first by an associate nation.
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