Adil Rashid

Some Lesser Known Facts About Adil Rashid

• Terry Jenner recognized Rashid’s cricketing talent when he was 14 years old.

• Rashid’s family is from Pakistan. His family migrated to England in 1967 from Mirpur, Azad Kashmir, Pakistan.

• In 2005, during his early days in English cricket, Rashid took 6 wickets for Yorkshire’s Academy at 17.

  

• In 2006, Rashid debuted in the County Cricket against Warwickshire at North Marine Road, Scarborough, replacing the Australian batsman Darren Lehmann who was injured; he played a major role in Yorkshire’s victory in the match by taking 6 wickets for 67 runs.

• Rashid scored four consecutive centuries for the Yorkshire Second XI in 2006.

• Rashid scored his maiden first-class century in 2007 against Worcestershire at Kidderminster.

• In the 2007 English cricket season, Rashid was the highest wicket-taker for Yorkshire in first-class cricket where he took 43 wickets with a bowling average of 42.16, he also scored 837 runs with a batting average of 44.05 making him the fourth-highest scorer of the team.

• In October 2007, Rashid was selected in the England Performance Programme squad to train at home and in India during the winter season.

• While playing for Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) during the 2007 English cricket season, Rashid batting along with Jacques Rudolph scored 190 runs for the sixth-wicket partnership against Surrey at The Oval. They broke the previous record which had stood since 1902.

• During the 2007 English cricket season, Rashid took five wickets for 88 runs in a match against Durham at Headingley, his brilliant form throughout the season earned him a spot in the England Lions squad for a tour match against India.

• In 2008, Rashid was part of the England Lions squad that played in the Duleep Trophy in India; Rashid took six wickets in the tournament in 2 games.

• Later, Rashid had to change his bowling action due to a stress fracture that he received in the early days of his cricketing career.

• Rashid received a call from the national team in 2008 for a tour of India, he didn’t play any match in the series but later he was included in England’s squad for their series against West Indies where he was part of the England’s squad for a match against Saint Kitts and Nevis team.

  

• In 2009, Rashid was included in England’s squad for the 2009 ICC World Twenty20 as a replacement for Andrew Flintoff who was injured. He played 4 matches in the tournament and took 3 wickets at an average of 31.66 and with an economy of 7.30 runs per over.

• In 2010-11, Rashid finished the county season with 732 runs at a batting average of 45.75 and 57 wickets at a bowling average of 31.29. He even took 26 wickets for Yorkshire in the 2010 Friends Provident t20 tournament where he was the highest wicket-taker among his teammates and fourth most in the tournament.

  

• In 2015, Rashid returned to England’s ODI squad for the series against New Zealand. He scored 69 runs in the first match of the series which involved a record partnership of 177 runs with Jos Buttler. He also took 4 wickets in the game and ended up with 8 wickets in the series playing all five matches.

  

• In 2015, Rashid took 7 wickets in the ODI series against Australia and ended the series as the highest wicket-taker of his team.

• In November 2018, Rashid became the Ambassador for the Overseas Plastic Surgery Appeal charity, a Yorkshire-based organisation that mostly operates in the Punjab region of Pakistan.

  

• Rashid has a unique record to his name of taking five wickets along with scoring a century in each match on three different occasions in a first-class season.

• In 2019, Rashid retired from Test cricket due to a shoulder injury. The other reason he stated for leaving the test cricket was to focus more on white-ball cricket.

• Rashid was part of the England teams that won the 2019 Cricket World Cup and the 2022 T20 World Cup. He took 11 wickets in the 2019 World Cup.

  

• Rashid uses different bowling variations, including leg break, top spin, googly, and slider.

• Adil and his brother run the Adil Rashid Cricket Academy in Bradford to encourage and nurture the young talent of his hometown.