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  • Afghan cricketer Rashid Khan lights up BBL with a six-fer

    Afghan cricketer Rashid Khan lights up BBL with a six-fer

    Afghanistan’s leg-spinner Rashid Khan impressed his fans with his exceptional bowling on his last appearance for Adelaide Strikers in the ongoing season of the Big Bash League (BBL).

    Rashid claimed prolific figures of 6/17, his best-ever in T20 cricket, to help Strikers register a convincing 71-run victory against Brisbane Heat.

    The 23-year-old was also playing his 300th T20 match, which made his achievement even more memorable.

    Rashid has left the BBL early due to Afghanistan’s three-match ODI series against Netherlands in Qatar, which is set to start on January 21.

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    He will play for the Lahore Qalandars in the seventh edition of the Pakistan Super League (PSL), which is scheduled to begin on January 27. The Lahore fans will be hoping that Rashid can continue his good run of form in the PSL as well.

  • BBL 11: Fakhar’s Heat and Shadab’s Sixers match postponed after Covid chaos

    BBL 11: Fakhar’s Heat and Shadab’s Sixers match postponed after Covid chaos

    Covid chaos has again rocked the Big Bash League (BBL) with a clash between the Pakistani batter Fakhar Zaman’s Brisbane Heat and all-rounder Shadab Khan’s Sydney Sixers called off after 12 Brisbane players tested positive to the virus.

    “Twelve Heat players today returned positive PCR tests for Covid-19 and are currently isolating,” the BBL confirmed in a statement on Wednesday.

    “Despite its best endeavours, the club was unable to recruit enough replacement players in the 24 hours since the first case was identified to make up the required squad of 13 for tonight’s match.”

    The earlier game between the Adelaide Strikers and the Hobart Hurricanes at the Adelaide Oval will go ahead, but the time has been pushed back a little given that the play will go late in the Test at the SCG.

    The development came on the back the crisis that has seen the Melbourne Stars forced to field a second string team with skipper Glenn Maxwell, the latest player to test positive in their camp.

    The post also read that the league will advise a new date for the match and ticket holders will be contacted for the refunding process.

    More than half the BBL’s teams have now reported positive cases.