Rashid: Afghanistan has given me all the respect all the name
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Afghanistan leg spinner Rashid Khan stated on Saturday that he is not willing to play franchise cricket instead of national duty. Rashid is a very key player to all his respected franchises all over the world.
Visiting Afghanistan consigned Bangladesh to a crushing defeat in the second T20I to square the series 1-1 in Mirpur’s Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium.
Rashid, who played in the Pakistan Super League in 2022, joined his teammates only before Afghanistan's series against Bangladesh, and there were speculations that he would quit the series in the middle to join the Lahore Qalandars for the PSL final. Rashid, on the other hand, clarified on Twitter that he would not be leaving Bangladesh to play in the PSL, putting the speculation to rest.
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"It's not about work or not work, national duty is national duty. You do well for the national team or you do bad, that is different thing, that is something which is not in the control of the players. But overall I think wherever I go and wherever I play, when there is national team (commitments), I have to be there,'' Rashid said.
"When my national team is on tour I have to be there and I have to be ready to play. It's not about if I'm effective or not, my presence will give the message to all the youngsters that there is no bigger thing than national duty. Whatever happens, you have to leave that and you have to come to national duty,”
"I am here because of my national team as Afghanistan has taken me to this position. If the Afghanistan team was not there, I don't know where I would be, I don't know what I would have been doing, but Afghanistan has given me all the respect all the name...I have to respect that and I have to be available for my team anywhere, anytime,'' he said.
