I Never Made A Statement That I Will Marry Once I Win The World Cup For Afghanistan: Rashid Khan

Afghanistan cricketer Rashid Khan has clarified that he never said that he will marry once Afghanistan wins a World Cup. The Afghan spinner clarified that he had said that his focus will be on cricket rather than getting married in the upcoming years. 23-year-old Rashid Khan is one of the powerful spinners in T20 format.

The right-arm pacer has played 51 T20I matches for Afghanistan so far. He has grabbed 95 wickets at an outstanding average of just 12.63. He also owns a brilliant economy of just 6.22 in T20Is. In 74 ODIs, he has picked 140 wickets at an average of 18.58. Khan is also a regular member of franchise T20 leagues around the world.

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I Never Made A Statement That I Will Marry Once I Win The World Cup: Rashid Khan

In a conversation with AFP, the Afghan spinner denied that he ever said he will get married after the Afghanistan lift the World Cup trophy. He said he was shocked to hear this. However, Rashid clarified that he said he has three World Cups in upcoming years, and his focus is on playing cricket rather than getting married.

“I will marry when Afghanistan win a World Cup. Actually, I was so shocked when I heard this because, to be honest, I never made a statement that I will marry once I win the World Cup.

“I just said that in the next few years I have more cricket and three World Cups (the 2021 and 2022 Twenty20 World Cups and the 50-over World Cup in 2023) so my focus will be on cricket rather than on getting married,” Rashid Khan said.

Talking about the ICC T20 World Cup 2021, the former Afghanistan skipper said that he feels wickets are very good for spinners in UAE.

“The wickets here are mostly very good for spinners, so I think that’s the main reason most of the teams have more spinners in their attack What I noticed during the Indian Premier League was that wickets were good but there was not that much spin.

“But I think the more we play in this World Cup we might see wickets which are a bit different and the more you play on these tracks it becomes slower and slower and they will be handy for spinners,” Rashid Khan further said.

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Afghanistan is part of group 2 in ICC T20 World Cup 2021. In their pool, the Asain team has teams like India, Pakistan, and New Zealand. 2 more teams will join the group later. Afghanistan will face the winner of Group B (B1) at the Sharjah Cricket Stadium on October 25.

The team is led by Gulbadin Naib. Mohammad Shahzad, Hazratullah Zazai, Mohammad Nabi, Rashid Khan, and Mujeeb ur Rahman are a few key players in the team.