Rashid Khan relates how Inzamam ul Haq gave him his worldwide debut based mostly on one ball

Rashid Khan mentioned Inzamam ul Haq had chosen him to play for the Afghanistan facet based mostly on just one ball he bowled to him on the nets. Inzamam, the then Afghanistan coach, had seen one thing particular within the 17-year-old to provide him his worldwide debut on a 2015 tour of Zimbabwe.
Rashid Khan spoke about how he was inducted within the Afghanistan nationwide set-up and despatched to Zimbabwe in a current ESPNCricinfo video. The staff was scheduled to play 5 ODIs and a couple of T20Is on that tour. Inzamam didn’t play Rashid Khan within the 1st ODI, which Afghanistan misplaced, as a result of he had not seen him but, mentioned Rashid.
“In the practice session (before the 2nd ODI), Inzamam himself padded up and said he wanted to face me himself. You know how strong he is with the cut shot. The first two balls I bowled, he cut. So I thought I will bowl a wrong ‘un from the same spot, let’s see what happens. He didn’t get out but the ball beat him,” Rashid mentioned.
“At that point itself he came outside the net and told me, ‘Be ready for the match tomorrow, you will be part of the team’,” he mentioned.

On his debut, Rashid performed a 8-run cameo with the bat and was essentially the most economical bowler of the day with figures of 1/30 in 10 overs as Afghanistan received by 58 runs.
Speaking on the BBC podcast ‘The Doosra’ final yr, Rashid had associated how throughout a web session Inzamam had requested Rashid, “Where were you?” He had replied, “Afghanistan,” with out realizing what Inzamam was saying.