BWFA Holds Training Seminar
THURSDAY-MARCH 11, 2021 Sport 05 BWFA holds The life and career of Rashid Khan, Afghanistan’s cricket prodigy training seminar The life and career of Afghani- At a provincial Twenty20 young man was missing. He had id, nothing,” said Hashmi. stan cricketer Rashid Khan has seen match in Kabul, playing for a club had to dash over to Afghanistan to On one occasion, Rashid was the theatrical treatment: The cur- called Kochian, Abdulrahimzai play in a tournament. dropped due to a dispute in the tains parted one day and there he watched an unknown teenager, of This to and fro was due to team and Hashmi went to his home was. small built, batting like a dervish. Rashid’s nomadic boyhood, often to make peace. Among a cast of romantic, co- “He was opening, he scored as part of a business family along- “The next time I went to the lourful cricketers from the coun- try’s fairy tale, stood the teen prod- igy, the one player ready-made for the biggest stage. Online profiles feature Rash- id’s One-Day International (ODI) debut at the age of 17, the 25 teams he has represented in various for- mats, his admiration for Pakistan’s Shahid Afridi, that whippy, whirly action, dead-eye wrong ’un, strik- ing ability with the bat, athleticism in the field and the ICC T20 Play- er of the Decade title, even though he played in only half of it. But what about the other parts of the man that was known as Rashid Arman, the sixth of 11 brothers? The dreamer who thought he would become the fam- KABUL: The Basketball four teams from female athletes tend the international competi- ily’s first doctor? The computer Wheelchair Federation of Afghan- with each team consisting of ten tions, as well,” Zirak said.
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