Rashid Khan (cricketer)
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 cricket to captain a Test match side.
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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. 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 cricket to captain a Test match side. In April 2019, the Afghanistan Cricket Board named Khan as the team’s new T20I captain, replacing Asghar Afghan. In June 2019, during the 2019 Cricket World Cup, Khan played in his 100th international cricket match for Afghanistan. Rashid Khan was born in 1998 in Nangarhar, eastern Afghanistan. He hails from Jalalabad, and has ten siblings. When he was still young, his family fled the Afghan war and lived in Pakistan for a few years. They later returned to Afghanistan, resuming their normal life and Rashid continued his schooling. He grew up playing cricket with his brothers and idolised Pakistani all-rounder Shahid Afridi, from whom he stylised his bowling action.
He made his One Day International debut for Afghanistan against Zimbabwe on 18 October 2015, and made his Twenty20 International debut, also against Zimbabwe, on 26 October. In January 2018, the International Cricket Council named him as the Associate Cricketer of the Year. The following month, he was named as the stand-in captain of the Afghanistan team for the 2018 World Cup Qualifier tournament, while Afghanistan’s regular captain, Asghrzai Stanikzai, recovered from his appendix removed. In March 2018, he captained Afghanistan for the first time in an ODI match. On 9 June, he took his second ODI five-wicket haul, finishing with figures of 7 wickets for 18 runs against the West Indies at Gros Islet. He became the fastest bowler, in terms of time, to take 50 wickets in T20Is. He reached the milestone in two years and 220 days, in the first T 20I against Bangladesh.
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