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Adil Rashid

Rashid received his cricket coaching as a leg spinner from the former Australian cricketer, Terry Jenner, in an ECB program. The program was mainly held to encourage wrist spinners. He was considered as the country’s youngest and most talented leg-spinner by the ECB bowling coach, David Parsons, in 2006. In fact, he is the only third Yorkshire born Asian player of Pakistani origin who is playing for Yorkshire on their team.

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Rashid is one of the most famous cricketers and is known for his diversity in the cricket field. Cricket fans all around the globe simply cannot deny his priceless ability to bowl leg-spin. At the age of 20, Rashid was not only able to enhance his country’s somewhat taciturn reputation, but, even at that young age, Rashid was also able to hold himself well enough to maintain his position in the game

Rashid’s fans love him for his Right-Arm-Leg-Spin bowling style. In fact, his bowling style has received a lot of attention and praise from not only his fans, but from other players as well. Rashid has taken more than 340 first class wickets. There is no public information about the net worth of the player, but in a very short time frame, Adil Rashid has been able to come up to the highest level. He had only played five ODI’s before he was sent to tumble, however, Rashid has managed to shine with both bat and ball and has managed to secure a place of distinction in his career as a cricketer.

Nobody's position in professional sport can be guaranteed. It is always dependent upon performance. There will be scrutiny, too, on Adil Rashid. In a recent article about England’ s cricket team a sports columnist for The Guardian had this to say: “Rashid still counts as the most controversial selection of England’s summer, a pick so divisive it caused a great deal of chuntering rage in Yorkshire, hard as that might be to believe. And yet here he was a luxury item, a garnish, the Test Match equivalent of parsley or the crescent of crisps around your egg salad baguette. In fairness, however, it’s probably wrong to say Rashid did nothing at all. He walked at least nine kilometres from deep fine leg to midwicket through the 82 overs India batted. He was padded up to come in as England declared after a whirling cameo from Sam Curran, who batted for half an hour like a man swatting bats with a mop. Otherwise Rashid was a Rashid-shaped hole, a ghost in the flanneled machine. His one real contribution was to provide the game’s outstanding comedic moment on Saturday afternoon, stopping, staring and pirouetting frantically at mid-on as the ball skirled over his head from a Ravichandran Ashwin top edge. It was an endearing moment, just as there was something touching about Rashid’s vigil as he mooched dutifully from near side to far side like some restless Victorian ghost, a sprite of the lime-green turf. During the morning session he fielded a couple balls near square leg. At 2.12pm one finally went straight to him at midwicket. Around tea time there was even an odd moment as it began to rain and for some reason Rashid stayed ambling around as the ground staff hared on. Was he going to help with the covers?”

But all sportsmen have their ups and downs and Rashid’s career recently had an up. Adil Rashid was credited with the delivery that helped England to victory. The wicket came at a time when Rashid was facing criticism from the stands, particularly from Indian supporters, but his delivery forced his detractors into silence, and it kick started England's attack in the final session. Fans on twitter were calling it “the ball of the series” and the wicket prompted one Twitter fan to say “At the end of the series, even Adil Rashid turns out to be a hero”.

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Quick Facts
Birth Date: 17 Feb, 1988
Age: 32 yrs
Occupations: Cricketer
Citizenship: Australia
Birth Place: Bradford
Gender: Male
Description: English cricketer
Net Worth 2021: 14 million
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Last Modified: Jun 27 2020
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