{"id":776534,"date":"2026-09-20T06:36:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T06:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/776534\/"},"modified":"2026-09-20T06:36:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T06:36:10","slug":"even-i-dont-know-what-exactly-happened-rashid-khan-on-being-removed-as-afghanistan-t20i-captain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/776534\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Even I don’t know what exactly happened’ – Rashid Khan on being removed as Afghanistan T20I captain"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rashid Khan<\/a> says the Afghanistan Cricket Board did not inform him before removing him as T20I captain earlier this year. After Afghanistan<\/a> couldn’t progress beyond the group stage in the 2026 T20 World Cup, Rashid was replaced<\/a> at the helm by opening batter Ibrahim Zadran.<\/p>\n

“Even I don’t know what exactly happened at that time,” Rashid told Cricinfo in an interview facilitated by Red Bull. “I came to know [about the captaincy change] when the board announced it.”<\/p>\n

Despite a poor show at the 2026 T20 World Cup, Afghanistan had a positive record under Rashid, including reaching the 2024 T20 World Cup semi-finals. In all, he captained the side in 48 T20Is<\/a>, of which they won 26 and lost 22. Only Asghar Afghan had a better win-loss ratio as Afghanistan captain but his stint overlapped with a period when Afghanistan used to frequently play against lower-ranked teams.<\/p>\n

“Under my captaincy, we reached the T20 World Cup semi-finals, we beat West Indies, but sometimes things are not in your control,” Rashid said. “But I have moved on now. Whether I’m captain or not, I’m proud that I’m representing Afghanistan and I’m trying to put to use whatever skills and capabilities I have. What I can control is to do well for Afghanistan and make them win.”<\/p>\n

The recent three-match series against India was Zadran’s first as full-time captain. Afghanistan lost all three games. Rashid picked up 4 for 113<\/a> at an economy rate of 9.82.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rashid Khan says the Afghanistan Cricket Board did not inform him before removing him as T20I captain earlier…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":776535,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[132648,1721,36623,49,50,132647,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-776534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-bulletin","tag-cricket","tag-daily","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-package","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=776534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/776535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=776534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=776534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=776534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}