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🗓️ 25 June 2019
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Rashid Khan was born in Nangarhar in Eastern Afghanistan in 1998 but his early life was spent in a refugee camp in Pakistan away from the conflict that has swept across his homeland for decades. He grew up playing cricket with his ten siblings eventually returning to Afghanistan to complete his schooling. And now he is named for the second year running as the leading Twenty20 cricketer in the world. Is Khan really the finest spin bowler on the planet?
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0:00.0 | Death in Ice Valley is returning. |
0:04.0 | We've been trying to find answers to an unsolved mystery. |
0:07.0 | And now we're back with an update on the case. |
0:10.0 | We'll be here to tell you more about it at the end of this podcast. |
0:13.2 | It's the man that everybody wants to see with the ball in his hand. |
0:20.3 | It's Rashi Kan from the Donald Road end for the first time today. |
0:24.6 | This is the Stormont Estate Cricket pitch in Bilfas Northern Ireland. |
0:29.2 | Next to the empty and closed Stormont Parliament Building. The province of Northern Ireland has been |
0:35.0 | without a government for over two years due to party political disputes. But Afghan |
0:40.8 | cricketers have travelled thousands of miles to play here against an Ireland team. |
0:45.8 | Seven wicked hall against the West Indies. |
0:48.0 | And he's had the wood over Ireland in recent years. |
0:50.0 | Irish sport is complicated. |
0:53.0 | Rugby has a team from all Ireland, north and south. |
0:56.0 | Cricket is the same, but football has separate teams for north and south. |
1:01.0 | An Olympic athlete from the north can choose to be either Irish or British, choosing |
1:06.4 | which side of the border to represent. |
1:08.8 | My name is Abdurama and Ahmaday. |
1:11.6 | I came from Dublin to watch the match between Afghanistan and Ireland. |
1:15.0 | Who is your favorite player in London? |
1:18.0 | All of them are my favorite, but the most favorites are Asratula Z Zassai and Rashit Kan. |
1:24.0 | So why you like Rashid fan? |
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