Rashid Khan makes his much-awaited return to aggressive cricket ahead of the IPL 2024 as the star spinner shall be main Afghanistan within the T20I squad for the Ireland series. The leggie final performed a aggressive cricket match within the ODI World Cup 2023. He sustained a again damage through the match and missed out on cricketing motion ever since then.
Rashid’s return can even be a big increase for the Gujarat Titans within the Indian Premier League. The Afghan star would now be capable to play for the 2022 champions. Rashid missed out on the Big Bash League 13 and the PSL 9 and was not half of the International assignments for his nationwide aspect. He travelled with the workforce for a T20I series in opposition to India in January however was not deemed match to play.Â
In Rashid’s absence, opening batter Ibrahim Zadran led the workforce within the three T20I series after the ODI World Cup. Afghanistan confronted UAE, India and Sri Lanka in these three series and managed to beat solely UAE by 2-1, whereas misplaced to India 3-0 and Sri Lanka 2-1.
The three-match T20I series in opposition to Ireland is their final 20-over International project earlier than the T20 World Cup in June.Â
Rashid had just lately opened up on his return to International cricket. “The plan is to represent the country in the upcoming series (T20 against Afghanistan) and the training has been underway and today was the second day and thankfully it went well and I hope that the following few days will also be well so that I can wear the national jersey again and continue to do well for my country,” Rashid stated whereas chatting with Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB).
Meanwhile, Mujeeb Ur Rahman additionally returns to the International aspect after lacking out the the T20I series in opposition to Sri Lanka and the ODI series in opposition to Ireland. He had a sprain in his proper phalanx (hand) and is now making a comeback. The three-match T20I series begins on March 15 at Afghanistan’s house.
Afghanistan T20I squad: Rashid Khan (c), Ibrahim Zadran, Rahmanullah Gurbaz (wk), Sediq Atal, Ijaz Ahmadzai, Ishaq Rahimi (wk), Mohammad Nabi, Nangyal Kharotai, Azmat Omarzai, Noor Ahmad, Mujeeb Ur Rahman, Wafadar Momand, Farid Malik, Naveen Ul Haq, Fazal Haq Farooqi
