![]() ![]() ![]() After a superb 17-wicket first season with them, he picked up franchise deals with Guyana Amazon Warriors - for whom he took the first-ever hat-trick in the CPL in 2017 - and Adelaide Strikers, with whom he won his (and their) first BBL title in 2018. Less than two years later, he was snapped up by Sunrisers Hyderabad in the IPL for close to US$600,000. Rashid was just 17 when he made his ODI debut on Afghanistan's tour of Zimbabwe in October 2015. With bat in hand he is more than capable of clearing the boundary late in an innings, and he has airbrushed many a middling total into a match-winning one for his team. His biggest weapon is an accurate googly, and he has variations aplenty. Not a big turner of the ball, he puts batters under pressure with his speed through the air, like his bowling idol Shahid Afridi, while maintaining a stump-to-stump line. His extraordinarily effective legspin has made him one of the greatest T20 bowlers ever, among the first names on wishlists of teams in leagues all around the world. Rashid Khan has been Afghanistan's first global superstar, and the key to their successes in their early years in international cricket. ![]()
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