Rashid Khan

Afghanistan's leg-spin wizard and T20I captain.

Rashid Khan Arman (born 20 September 1998) is an Afghan international cricketer and captain of the Afghanistan national team in the T20I format. He bowls right-arm leg spin and is an aggressive right-handed batsman.

Quick Facts

Role: Bowling All-rounder
Affiliation: Sunrisers Hyderabad (2017-Present)

Lore & Background

Rashid Khan was born in 1998 in a Shinwari Pashtun family in Nangarhar, Eastern Afghanistan. His family fled the war and lived in Pakistan for a few years. He grew up playing cricket with his brothers and idolised Pakistani all-rounder Shahid Afridi, after whom he stylised his bowling action and South African batsman AB de Villiers. He attended Islamia College Peshawar, where he studied computer science until 2013. He came to prominence in 2014 when he performed notably in matches played in Peshawar when the Afghan cricket team toured Pakistan.

Reader's Guide

In franchise leagues, Rashid Khan plays for Gujarat Titans in the Indian Premier League (IPL), Adelaide Strikers in Australia's Big Bash League (BBL), Lahore Qalandars in the Pakistan Super League (PSL), Band-e-Amir Dragons in Afghanistan's Shpageeza Cricket League and MI New York in Major League Cricket (MLC). He made his ODI debut for Afghanistan against Zimbabwe on 18 October 2015, and his T20I debut also against Zimbabwe on 26 October 2015. He made his Test debut for Afghanistan against India on 14 June 2018.

Did You Know?

He became the youngest cricketer to captain a Test match team at age 20 years and 350 days.
He took the best bowling figures (7 wickets for 18 runs) for an associate nation in an ODI in June 2017.
He became the fastest bowler to take 100 wickets in T20I cricket, in his 53rd match.
He was named the ICC Men's T20I Cricketer of the Decade in December 2020.