I mostly played cricket at home with my brothers. When things were not good in Afghanistan, my family shifted to Pakistan. I always had in my mind to be a doctor"Ĭan you tell us about when you started out as a cricketer and where you grew up? Rashid takes a selfie with his team-mates: "I never had it in my mind to be a cricketer, playing for Afghanistan. You have to have that kind of energy that, yes, I am fully ready for it, I have worked hard for it, so I can deliver when the team needs me in tough times. For that you have to encourage yourself, you have to have that positive mindset. That's the time the team needs you and you are trying your best to deliver. I always love challenges, tough situations. Once you start losing a bit in the mind, you think negatively, different things come to your mind, then it affects your performance. But as long as you get involved in the game, as long as you have the positive mindset, you can deliver at any stage. Whenever you are playing around the world, any format, that pressure is always there. As a player you always have pressure on you. That's how I have been more successful in different countries.ĭoes courage play a part in being able to do that?Įxactly. That's why I have been more successful - reading the situations and conditions very quickly and adjusting myself quicker than maybe others.
Would you say one of your biggest strengths is being open to a situation and then quickly it sizing up? Ahead of his second T20 World Cup, Rashid spoke to the Cricket Monthly about his early life, slipping off to play cricket without his family's permission, his favourite T20 spells, and fasting for Ramadan with SRH team-mates Kane Williamson and David Warner. He's the leading T20 wicket-taker of this period, with 333 wickets, and second on economy rate. Five years on, a much leaner Rashid, now sporting stubble, is the Sunrisers' MVP and wanted by every T20 franchise across the world. In 2017, when Sunrisers Hyderabad bought Rashid Khan for nearly US$600,000, he was a clean-shaven, chubby 18-year-old Afghanistan spinner. Interview by Nagraj Gollapudi | October 20, 2021
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