Rashid Khan proved management comes straightforward to him after the Afghanistan spinner led Gujarat Titans to an exhilarating victory in opposition to Chennai Super Kings within the Indian Premier League (IPL).With common skipper Hardik Pandya sitting out with a groin damage on Sunday, Rashid was put in control of the IPL debutants, who restricted holders Chennai to 169-5 in Pune.
Gujarat then discovered themselves in all kinds of bother at 16-3 within the fourth over earlier than David Miller conjured an unbeaten 94 and Rashid smashed 40 off 21 balls to seal a three-wicket victory with a ball to spare.
“It’s a kind of dream captaining the team, but overall the win made it memorable,” Rashid stated after Gujarat notched up their fifth win in six matches to guide the factors desk.
“Delivering with the bat, it was very special. “I’ve been working hard on my batting. I consider myself an all-rounder, and I want to fulfil that responsibility.”
With Gujarat needing 48 runs from 18 balls, Rashid smacked three sixes and a 4 in Chris Jordan’s third over, which yielded 25 runs.
“That was the time I had to step up with the short boundary in play. I told him (Miller) that if we can get 20 in that over, we can chase 30 in the last two.” Luckily he (Jordan) bowled the place I wished him to.”
Rashid fell within the penultimate over however man-of-the-match Miller stayed put to see Gujarat house. “We wanted to take the game deep. We knew we can get 90 in seven overs on this wicket,” stated Rashid, who went wicketless with the ball conceding 29 runs in 4 overs.
“We told David to go for it when the ball was in his zone. “We have a good lower order that can hit the ball really hard … In Twenty20s, you just need two batsmen to score big and finish it.”
Source: www.financialexpress.com