Rashid Khan has registered the day of 29th October in the pages of history in T20 International, in which he has become the first bowler to complete 200 wickets in this shortest format of international cricket. The second match of the 3 T20 match series between Afghanistan and Zimbabwe is being played on the ground of Sharjah, in which the Afghanistan team, batting first, scored 221 runs at the loss of 7 wickets in 20 overs. When the Afghan team came out to bowl, Rashid Khan managed to achieve a historic feat when he took the wicket of Tadivanashe Marumani on the third ball of the 9th over of the innings.
Rashid completed 200 wickets in his 120th match
Rashid Khan, the star player of the Afghanistan team and included in the list of match-winning bowlers in world cricket, is counted among the great bowlers of the T20 International format, in which he occupies the first position in the list of bowlers taking the most wickets. Rashid Khan needed to take just one wicket to complete the 200-wicket mark in the second T20 match against Zimbabwe and he accomplished that by dismissing Tadivanashe Marumani. Rashid Khan completed his 200 wickets in the 120th T20 International match, in which if we talk about his average, it was seen at 13.99.
Bowler taking most wickets in T20 International
- Rashid Khan (Afghanistan) – 200 wickets
- Adil Rashid (England) – 171 wickets
- Ehsan Khan (Hong Kong) – 165 wickets
- Ish Sodhi (New Zealand) – 165 wickets
- Tim Southee (New Zealand) – 164 wickets
Rashid showed amazing performance with the bat also
In the second T20 International match against Zimbabwe, the Afghanistan team, batting first, at one time lost four wickets till the score was 5. After this, Azmatullah Omarzai played a brilliant century of 116 runs and took the team’s score close to 200. Whereas Rashid Khan played an important role in taking it beyond 200, in which a total of 4 sixes were seen from his bat in the last over of the innings and he played an unbeaten inning of 25 runs in 6 balls.
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