ACB appoints spin wizard Rashid Khan as Afghanistan’s T20I captain

Afghanistan’s spin wizard Rashid Khan would be the new captain of the nation’s T20I crew, confirmed Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) on Thursday. Rashid has changed the senior all-rounder Mohammad Nabi following the latter’s withdrawal from the function after the ICC Males’s T20 World Cup 2022.

Rashid, who’s the third main wicket-taker within the shortest format, expressed his pleasure upon being given the massive duty. In an official assertion, the right-arm spinner mentioned: “Captaincy is a big duty. I’ve the expertise of main my nation earlier than, there’s a nice bunch of men with whom I’ve an excellent understanding and really feel fairly snug. We’ll attempt to stick collectively, will work laborious to place issues heading in the right direction and convey delight and pleasure to our nation and nation.”

Notably, Rashid has thus far represented Afghanistan in 74 T20I matches, by which the top-quality leg-spinner has taken 122 wickets. He’s solely behind New Zealand’s pacer Tim Southee (134) and Bangladesh’s all-rounder Shakib Al Hassan (128) within the wickets tally.

Relating to Rashid’s appointment because the T20I skipper, Mirwais Ashraf, the ACB Chairman, mentioned the leggie has sufficient expertise of enjoying the world over which is able to come useful in main the nationwide aspect.

“Rashid Khan is a large title in Afghanistan Cricket. He has colossal expertise of enjoying the format world wide, which is able to assist him take the crew to a brand new stage within the format. Rashid Khan has the expertise of main AfghanAtalan in all three codecs earlier than, and we’re pleased to have him as our skipper for the T20I format once more. I’m certain he’ll come out on prime and can carry extra glories to the nation,” mentioned Ashraf.