Afghanistan skipper Rashid Khan becomes the fastest cricketer to achieve 2 5-wicket wicket haul

September 8, 2019

By: Talat Mohsin

Cricketer Rashid Khan has added many feathers in his hat. The latest one is being the fastest to achieve 2 5-wicket haul, in what was only his 3 test. He achieved this status on the third day of the ongoing test match against Bangladesh in Chittagong.
Rashid is the 17th captain to pick five wickets and also score a half century in the same test match. He had scored 51 in the match which helped Afghanistan attain an advantage against the visitors.

He also beat Bangladesh’s Shakib Al Hasan to become the youngest cricketer in the history of world cricket to accomplish this achievement. Rashid took 20 years and 352 days to attain the position.

Earlier, the youngest captain to do so was Zimbabwe’s Tatenda Taibu who was 20 years and 358 days old in the match against Sri Lanka in 2004. On his dethronement, the former cricketer said-“ My congratulations to Rashid for becoming this record holder. Records are meant to be broken.”

At the end of day 3 of the Afghanistan vs Bangladesh match, Ibrahim Zadran’s 87 and Ashgar Afghan’s 50 has put Afghanistan in the commanding position as the visitors headed to close of play with a 374 run lead.

Bomb blast in Kabul after US-Taliban talk

Sugat Srivastava

July 1, 2019

The misery doesn’t seem to cease piling up for Afghanistan. A powerful car bomb blast left dozens of people wounded in Kabul. Gunmen also battled special forces in an area housing military and government buildings.

The rush-hour explosion sent a plume of smoke into the air above the Puli Mahmood Khan neighbourhood of the Afghan capital and shook buildings up to two kilometres (1.2 miles) away. Gunshots after the blast were also reported by an AFP reporter.

Health ministry spokesman Wahidullah Mayar tweeted that 65 wounded people, including nine children, had been taken to hospital. He warned that casualties could rise. The area was quickly blocked off by Afghan forces and ambulances, with helicopter gunships seen overhead as firing continued.

Police said they do not yet know the target. The nearby “Green Zone” diplomatic area was briefly put on lockdown, but later opened again.

The explosion came two days after the Taliban and the US began their seventh round of talks in Qatar as Washington eyes a breakthrough before Afghanistan’s September presidential election. The negotiations have so far centred on four issues – counter-terrorism, the foreign troop presence, an intra-Afghan dialogue and a permanent ceasefire.

No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack but both the Taliban and the so-called Islamic State group are active in Kabul.

The heavily-secured neighbourhood is home to some military and government buildings, including one shared by Afghanistan’s intelligence agency and defence ministry, as well as the Afghan Football Federation and Cricket Board.

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Afghanistan skipper Rashid Khan becomes the fastest cricketer to achieve 2 5-wicket wicket haul

Bomb blast in Kabul after US-Taliban talk