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Adil Rashid, also known as Dilly is a famous English <a href="/biography/adil-rashid">Cricketer</a>. He was born and raised in Bradford, Yorkshire in England but he is actually of Pakistani background. The player is currently thirty years old and was born on February 17, 1988. His family migrated from Kashmir to England in 1967. In the beginning of his career, Adil played in the under 19’s team for England. After this, the player was called upon to join the full England Test Team. On 13th October 2015, Adil made his test debut in UAE against Pakistan.

Rashid’s innate ability with the bat and the ball has amazed fans and followers of the country’s cricket teams for many years. Rashid gets the ball in the air by his right-arm-leg-spin bowling technique. Rashid is not only a bowler but also a very useful left-handed batsman. Rashid showed promise from a young age and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Jenner">Jenner</a> is credited for spotting him as a fourteen year old. In early July, 2005, at the age of seventeen, Rashid took 6–13 for Yorkshire's Academy team. Just a few days later Rashid hit 111 for Yorkshire Cricket Board Under-17s against their Cheshire equivalents in the Under-17s County Championship. In June, 2007, Rashid won both the YCCSA Young Player of the Year Award for 2006 and the Neil Lloyd Young Cricketer of the Year Award for 2006.

Indeed, Rashid has always had the attention of fans as is shown in the following profile written on an ESPN blog:  “Young spinners in England will always make headlines if they take wickets. When it is a young legspinner the hype is magnified. When it is a young spinner of Pakistani extraction, brought up in Yorkshire, the sense of excitement becomes palpable. Adil Rashid, the <a href="/biography/adil-rashid">player</a> who above all symbolized Yorkshire's growing success in fostering strong relationships in its minority ethnic communities, burst onto the scene with six wickets against Warwickshire on his first-class debut in 2006 at Scarborough. There was a sense in Yorkshire's much-loved seaside town that afternoon as Rashid cut through Warwickshire that a historic breakthrough had been made and more than one Yorkshire supporter observed Rashid's performance with hearts uplifted.”

Rashid was also well appreciated early in his career with England when he played in the Under-19s and had an eight-wicket haul during the second Test against India. Unfortunately, he also suffered a stress fracture in his back near the end of the season which forced him to undergo therapy and adjust the way he played. Rashid enjoyed his most productive season for Yorkshire in 2010, scoring 732 first-class runs at 45.75 and taking 57 wickets at 31.29. Rashid began the 2011 season well, taking 6 for 77 and 5 for 37 to secure victory from Worcestershire at New Road. These were the best figures for a leg-spinner in Yorkshire history, but Rashid failed to maintain his form, and finished the season with 39 wickets at 43.38.

His fans support him and believe that he can give a challenge to <a href="/biography/moeen-ali">Moeen</a>, who is England’s specialist <a href="/biography/moeen-ali">Test spinner</a>, for a post. Adil Rashid remains as a contender and a part of the squad. The Right Leg Breaker Blower’s parent is <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdul_Rashid_Ghazi">Abdul Rashid</a>. He belongs to a sporting family and has two siblings, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amar_Rashid">Amar Rashid</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haroon_Rasheed">Haroon Rashid</a>. His brother <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amar_Rashid">Amar Rashid</a> is also a professional cricket player for England. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amar_Rashid">Amar</a> is a right-handed <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amar_Rashid">batsman</a>, and he bowls leg break. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haroon_Rasheed">Haroon Rashid</a> is also a cricketer.

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Rashid received his cricket coaching as a leg spinner from the former Australian cricketer, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Jenner">Terry Jenner</a>, 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 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Parsons_(cricket_coach)">bowling coach</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Parsons_(cricket_coach)">David Parsons</a>, in 2006. In fact, he is the only third Yorkshire born Asian <a href="/biography/adil-rashid">player</a> of Pakistani origin who is playing for Yorkshire on their team.

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 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Curran">Sam Curran</a>, 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 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ravichandran_Ashwin">Ravichandran Ashwin</a> 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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