Rashid Khan: All you need to know about IPL's most expensive Afghanistan player

#4 Inspired by Shahid Afridi

Bowlers like Rashid Khan can unsettle the batsmen due to their swift over-rate

Shahid Afridi made his debut at a very young age. When Afridi played his first game for the Pakistan national team in the year 1996, he was a prodigy at 16 years of age. Rashid Khan was in teenage as well when he made his T20 debut.

In addition to this, both Afridi and Khan are right arm leg-spinners. While the former is famous for bowling quicker deliveries, the latter is known to bowl his spell of overs very quickly.

Another common thing that Afridi and Khan have is that both of them are big hitters of the cricket ball and are renowned as bowling all-rounders in their respective countries.

Khan has really done well to follow Afridi’s footsteps and he is now an established player in the Afghanistan side. In his short journey so far, he has maintained an economy rate of 6.14 in T20I and an amazing 3.97 in ODIs.