{"id":85864,"date":"2017-09-14T09:27:06","date_gmt":"2017-09-14T09:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/rashid-khan-makes-it-to-the-big-bash\/"},"modified":"2017-09-14T09:27:06","modified_gmt":"2017-09-14T09:27:06","slug":"rashid-khan-makes-it-to-the-big-bash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/rashid-khan-makes-it-to-the-big-bash\/","title":{"rendered":"Rashid Khan makes it to the Big Bash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/2017_Uploads\/2017\/Sep\/14\/564870-rashid-khan.jpg\" width=\"640\" \/><\/p>\n<p>KABUL (SW): Following his impressive form in T20s this year, Afghanistan&#39;s Rashid Khan has signed with the Adelaide Strikers for the 2017-18 Big Bash League in Australia.<\/p>\n<p>The 18-year old leg-spinner ended his first IPL earlier this year as Sunrisers Hyderabad&#39;s second-highest wicket-taker, with 17 from 14 matches. In the recently concluded Caribbean Premier League, he claimed the tournament&#39;s first-ever hat-trick and finished with the best economy-rate of 5.82 for Guyana Amazon Warriors.<\/p>\n<p>According to the ESPN cricinfo, Strikers coach Jason Gillespie said: &quot;Rashid has set the world alight in T20 cricket with his energy, enthusiasm, and great control for a young guy. He has some great variations, can bowl stump-to-stump and can be very hard to pick. We&#39;re delighted to be able to offer him the opportunity to play for the Adelaide Strikers.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Rashid joins former South Africa batsman Colin Ingram as the franchise&#39;s two overseas signings. Strikers, who had finished sixth out of eight in the last season, will open their campaign this year against Sydney Thunder on December 22. &ldquo;I am very happy to have signed with the Strikers for the BBL,&rdquo; Rashid has been quoted as saying by the Strikers. &ldquo;It is a huge honour to be a part of such a great tournament and even more of an honour to be the first Afghanistan player to participate on the BBL stage. I look forward to linking up with my Strikers teammates and backroom staff&rdquo;, he added.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL (SW): Following his impressive form in T20s this year, Afghanistan s Rashid Khan has signed with the Adelaide Strikers for the 2017-18 Big Bash League in Australia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":85865,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-85864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}