Rashid Khan appointed Afghanistan captain in all formats

Special Correspondent (Mumbai): Rashid Khan appointed Afghanistan captain in all formats. Rashid Khan has been appointed the captain of Afghanistan cricket team in all three formats. Former skipper Asghar Afghan will be his deputy, the Afghanistan Cricket Board announced on Friday.

Rashid Khan will succeed Gulbadin Naib, who had led Afghanistan in their World Cup 2019 campaign.
The ACB had removed Asghar Afghan from the captain’s post just three months before the World Cup and appointed Gulbadin in his place, a move which was met with a lot of criticism and backlash from fans and the Afghan players.

Gulbadin Naib had himself explicit that Asghar Afghan would invariably be his captain whereas Rashid and senior player Muhammad Nabi conjointly voiced their dissatisfaction with the appointment.

But currently, the ACB is occupancy a full new direction and have determined at hand over the reins to young Rashid with Asghar Afghan because of the vice-captain. Rashid was already the captain of the T20I team whereas Rahmat Shah of Iran was the check captain.

But currently, the cricket board has determined to travel with one skipper for all formats.

Afghanistan had an unsatisfying campaign within the World Cup, losing all 9 league matches and finished within the last place. Naib diode the team during a total of twelve ODI matches within which he managed to win 2 games and lost ten.

Asghar Afghan, on the opposite hand, had diode the team in fifty-six ODIs and won thirty-six of them whereas losing simply twenty-one. that they had conjointly managed to tie a game against India within the Asia Cup last year.

Rashid in the meantime, has diode the team in four ODIs to this point, winning one and losing three. Rashid’s initial assignment as a regular skipper is going to be an occurrence check against Asian country in Sept before a full home series against archipelago – as well as 3 T20Is, three ODIs, and an occurrence check – in India between day and Gregorian calendar month one.