Rashid Khan in motion© Twitter
Afghanistan spinner Rashid Khan is taken into account to be probably the greatest bowlers within the T20 format and the 24-year-old added one other feather to his already illustrious profession on Monday. Rashid, who’s at the moment enjoying for MI Cape City within the SA20 League, turned the second bowler ever to take 500 wickets within the shortest format of the sport. Rashid achieved the feat by dismissing Clyde Fortuin within the 14th over in the course of the match towards Pretoria Capitals. West Indies all-rounder Dwayne Bravo is the one different cricketer to take 500 wickets within the T20s. Bravo at the moment has 614 wickets to his identify.
The second Rashid Khan picked his five hundredth T20 wicket – The GOAT of T20s. pic.twitter.com/wAHiygckUS
— Mufaddal Vohra (@mufaddal_vohra) January 23, 2023
Rashid has been an integral a part of the Afghanistan cricket group for fairly a while, and he has additionally proved his mettle in T20 leagues all all over the world. The spinner ended the match towards MI Cape City with figures of three wickets for sixteen runs in 4 overs – one of the best amongst his teammates.
Rashid was on the verge of making historical past and he was capable of bamboozle Fortuin with a superb supply. The ball moved barely within the air and the batsman ended up edging it onto his stumps.
Nonetheless, the trouble from the spinner was not sufficient because the Capitals clinched the sport by 52 runs.
Will Jacks led the cost for the Capitals with a 19-ball half century and though seven wickets fell within the final 13 overs, Kusal Mendis and Theunis de Bruyn performed fast hearth knocks to take their group to 182.
In response, Dewald Brevis seemed in sensible contact however three wickets every for Wayne Parnell and Anrich Nortje proved to be the deciding issue as MI Cape City slumped to a heavy defeat.
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