Rashid Khan always wanted his teammates to have faith in their own abilities rather than fret over opposition’s strengths and that’s what they did during Afghanistan’s memorable 84-run victory over New Zealand in the T20 World Cup group league game. Defending 159, Afghanistan shot out New Zealand for 75 with left-arm seamer Fazalhaq Farooqui and the skipper himself decimating the opposition with four wickets apiece. “Now, we need to beat the teams in our own skills rather than think about the opposition much and that’s the only thing I have been telling the guys like just make sure we look into our skills,” Rashid said during the post-match presentation ceremony.
For skipper, it is the effort that matters more than the results as he believes that if a team is good enough, the result takes care of itself. “It doesn’t matter whoever we play the opposition it’s more about how good you are how good you’re going to play and what type of energy you coming with into the ground and that for me is very important. “I don’t much care about the result a lot to be honest.
I more care about the effort we put it’s a batting, bowling fielding, that’s something which gives me lots of pleasure. “It’s fine as long as you give a hundred per cent and you are happy with your efforts at the end of the day.” In last year’s ODI World Cup, Afghanistan famously stunned England, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka, while in the 2016 T20 World Cup the side had secured a memorable .
