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Afghanistan spinner Rashid Khan becomes T20 cricket's highest wicket-taker

5 Feb, 2025 10:27 AM, Wed

Afghanistan spinner Rashid Khan becomes T20 cricket's highest wicket-taker

Rashid Khan, for long one of the most convincing sights in T20 cricket, has now move to a zenith turning into the configuration's most noteworthy wicket-taker of all time. The 26-year-old Afghanistan wristspinner went past Dwayne Bravo's count of 631 wickets when he bowled Dunith Wellalage in the SA20 qualifier 1 against Paarl Royals on Tuesday. "It's an incredible accomplishment," Rashid told the host telecaster after his group got triumph. "I never mulled over everything, assuming you inquired as to whether I would arrive. It's a pleased inclination to be from Afghanistan and to be at that level where you top the table. DJ [Bravo] is one of the most outstanding T20 bowlers. It's a significant privilege and I'm anticipating proceeding." Rashid made his T20 debut when he was as yet a young person in October 2015. He is currently quick moving toward 500 matches having been a gigantically sought after player in associations everywhere. He has come out on top for an IPL championship and a PSL title and was practically a commonly recognized name in Adelaide where he played 69 counterparts for the Strikers, including getting vocation best figures of 6 for 17. The capacity to bowl rapidly through the air and keep the stumps in play made Rashid a very troublesome bowler to confront, particularly since it was difficult to pick what direction the ball was heading to turn. He gave hitters no opportunity to change and very little signs what planned to occur. Ultimately, groups essentially began playing him out without taking an excessive amount of chance. Rashid could go through a side - he has 20 takes of four wickets or more - yet his principal quality was that he could continuously monitor resistance hitters. Rashid talked about how wickets weren't really his need in that frame of mind with The Cricket Month to month the year before. "Assuming somebody is pursuing me, I will make it really hard for him. In the event that he actually hits it, it's a decent shot. However, I won't mosey down [on making the pressure]. It's more about making things increasingly hard for the hitter." As he acquired insight - Rashid has played in the Hundred, CPL and the BPL - his batting likewise moved along. He is known for his capacity to come in and hit sixes straight away and has a shot all his own, called the snake shot, where he gets under a yorker length ball and spins his wrists so much the bat connects and floods back, similar to whiplash. Rashid's overall ability was on show in the end of the season games of IPL 2018 when he made 34 off only 10 balls to lift Sunrisers Hyderabad to a sum of 170 and afterward safeguarded it by taking 3 for 19 and accepting two gets too. In an indication of how powerful Rashid can be, his ongoing IPL group, Gujarat Titans, held his administrations for INR 15 crore (USD 1.8 million approx).

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