{"id":192822,"date":"2025-10-06T06:06:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T06:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/192822\/"},"modified":"2025-10-06T06:06:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T06:06:07","slug":"which-is-the-second-best-team-in-asia-gujarat-titans-all-rounder-explains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/192822\/","title":{"rendered":"Which Is The Second Best Team In Asia? Gujarat Titans&#8217; All-Rounder Explains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The player was speaking ahead of a crucial T20I series between two Asian teams, who were part of the Asia Cup 2025 recently<\/p>\n<p>The tag of the second-best cricket team in Asia has been doing rounds and is always mentioned, mostly to poke fun at Afghanistan, when they are not doing well. Their T20 skipper and Gujarat Titans\u2019 all-rounder from the Indian Premier League (IPL), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cricket.com\/players\/rashid-khan-65748\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Rashid Khan<\/a>, does not like that mentality of poking fun one bit, and he made it clear on October 2 (Friday).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is one thing which is always going on in the media: people call us the second-best Asian team. We didn\u2019t say that,\u201d Rashid was quoted as saying to journalists ahead of the start of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cricket.com\/series\/afghanistan-and-bangladesh-tour-of-uae-2025-10090\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">three-match series against Bangladesh<\/a>, as quoted by Times of India.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think in the past, we performed, and that\u2019s where we got the tag. If you look into the Asia Cup, the T20 World Cup semifinal, the ODI World Cup, we have beaten big teams. Champions Trophy, we beat England. That\u2019s why we got the tag,\u201d he explained.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>However, he mentioned the trigger point later on, summarising why he doesn\u2019t like that tag. &#8220;In the future, if we don\u2019t perform well, we will definitely be number three, four, five, or six. I feel we haven\u2019t given ourselves that tag,\u201d said the 27-year-old.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He went on to school those who make fun of teams\u2019 performances, saying, \u201cWe are always trying our best to be a better team. Sometimes you do well, sometimes you don\u2019t. People discuss it and make fun of it. And I feel like nowadays, the more you make fun of someone, the more people like you. And I feel like it\u2019s going on a different level. And then it doesn\u2019t look nice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rashid was making a reference to his team\u2019s losses in the Asia Cup 2025, where they failed to reach the Super Four stage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The player was speaking ahead of a crucial T20I series between two Asian teams, who were part of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":192823,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-192822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}