2024-05-05 05:58:18
Bengaluru: Afghanistan cricket team captain Rashid Khan is currently participating in the Indian Premier League. Rashid Khan plays for Gujarat Titans in the league. Rashid has won the lost games for his team on many occasions with spin bowling, but he could not do so in the 52nd match of IPL 2024. The reason behind this was not Rashid’s bowling, but his injured shoulder. Rashid was injured while batting. Rashid got hit on his shoulder by Cameron Green’s ball. He groaned as soon as the ball hit him, but still he continued to bat. However, he was out soon after this.
In such a situation, Gujarat was in tension whether Rashid would be able to bowl. Because due to the speed with which the ball hit his shoulder, it must have become swollen. He was sitting holding my shoulder even in the dug out. Let us tell you that after losing the toss, the RCB team, batting first, was all out on the score of 147 runs. Rashid Khan had contributed 18 runs in that.
Rashid Khan came to bowl 12 overs
The RCB team, chasing the target of only 148 runs, had made a great start. Due to the stormy batting of Faf Duplessis and Virat Kohli, RCB had scored 92 runs in the power play. Victory seemed easy for RCB, but from here Gujarat bowlers turned the tables. Joshua Little and Noor Ahmed together took 6 wickets for RCB. RCB was in trouble.
Joshua’s spell was over and Noor had only one over left. In such a situation, captain Shubman Gill was left with no option other than Rashid. Manav Suthar and Mohit Sharma were ineffective. In such a situation, Shubman Gill handed the ball to Rashid and his move backfired. Although it is not easy for any batsman to score runs against Rashid Khan, but due to injured shoulder, Rashid also could not show his magic. He gave 16 runs in the first over of his spell. He scored 9 runs in the second over and the match was over, but despite this, Rashid Khan has to be praised for coming forward for his team even in pain despite having an injured shoulder.