‘We will accept playing a semi-final and losing…’ - Rashid Khan talks about Afghanistan’s progress after getting knocked out in T20 WC 2024

Afghanistan skipper Rashid Khan has played a big role in shaping the team’s bright future among the best Cricket teams in the world. He helped his side to qualify for the first time in an ICC event in the ongoing T20 World Cup 2024. The first semi-final game of the tournament saw them facing South Africa in Trinidad.

They played great Cricket throughout the tournament but failed to maintain the consistency when it was most needed. The Proteas handed an embarrassing loss to them as they first restricted the Afghanistan squad to just 56 runs and then achieved the target with 67 balls to spare. After the match, Rashid talked about what went wrong for them in the must-win semi-final game.

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“It was tough, tough for us as a team. We might have done better but the conditions didn't allow us to do what we wanted. That's how T20 cricket is, you need to be ready for all conditions. I think they bowled really well. We will accept playing a semi-final and losing to a top side like Africa.” Rashid was quoted as saying by Cricbuzz.

We will come back doing more hard work, especially in… - Rashid Khan

Rashid also talked about Afghanista's progress as a team and how well they played throughout the tournament. He said that this is just a beginning for them. Rashid also said that they will come back with a lot of improvement, especially in the batting department.

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“It is just the beginning for us, we have the confidence and belief to beat any side. We just need to keep our processes. This has been a great learning experience for us. What we take from the competition is the belief. We know we have the skills, it is just about managing tough situations, and pressure situations. Some work to be done, specially in the middle order to take the innings deep. As I said, it is always learning for our team and we have achieved good results so far but we will come back doing more hard work, especially in the batting department.” he said.