Rashid Khan created history in Test cricket, gave Afghanistan a great victory
Rashid Khan is an amazing bowler in Afghanistan. However, he is not considered a Test bowler. Meanwhile, Rashid Khan has done a new feat in Test cricket, which is not easy. The work that Rashid Khan has done now, no one has done for Afghanistan before, very few bowlers in the world have been able to do it. His bowling was so deadly that Afghanistan trounced Zimbabwe.
The Test match played between Afghanistan and Zimbabwe is not a part of the World Test Championship, but even after this, there was a lot of excitement about this match. Rashid Khan took 7 wickets in the last innings of this match. However, even before this, Rashid has done this feat about three years ago. But this time he has given very few runs. Earlier in the year 2021, when a Test match was played between Afghanistan and Bangladesh in Abu Dhabi, Rashid Khan took seven wickets in the innings for 137 runs. This time too Rashid has taken seven wickets, but he has done this feat by spending only 66 runs. Afghanistan had the record of best bowling in Tests even before this, he still has it in his name, but now he has done it even better.
Afghanistan has taken seven wickets in an innings in Tests only twice so far and both times this feat has been achieved by Rashid Khan. Apart from this, Rashid Khan has also taken 6 wickets for 49 runs against Bangladesh in the year 2019. In the year 2021, Aamir Hamla from Afghanistan managed to take 6 wickets for 75 runs against Zimbabwe. Rashid Khan has also taken 5 wickets in Tests by giving only 55 runs. He did this against Bangladesh in the year 2019.
Meanwhile, if we talk about the match, Afghanistan scored only 157 runs while batting first. After this, Zimbabwe scored 243 runs and took the lead on the basis of the first innings. But the miracle happened in the second innings when Afghanistan scored 363 runs. After this, Zimbabwe was all out for only 205 runs in the second innings and Afghanistan easily won the match by 72 runs.