Afghanistan's Rashid Khan has become the first men's cricketer to reach 200 wickets in Twenty20 Internationals. The former Afghanistan captain sealed Rashid Khan's 200 T20I wickets milestone on Thursday during Afghanistan's second T20 against Zimbabwe in Sharjah, underlining why he sits alone at the top of the men's T20I bowling charts.
How the landmark was sealed
The leg-spinner brought up the mark when he trapped Zimbabwe batter Tadiwanashe Marumani lbw for two in the ninth over. The dismissal took him to 200 wickets in the shortest international format and made him the first man to cross that line in men's T20Is.
He reached the feat in his 120th T20 international. At 28, Rashid's career numbers in the format remain striking: an average of 13.96 and an economy rate of 6.13. Those figures help explain how consistently he has taken wickets while keeping scoring in check.
Where he stands among T20I bowlers
Rashid now leads the list of men's T20I wicket-takers with 200 wickets. He is 29 clear of England's Adil Rashid, who sits second. That gap underlines how far ahead the Afghanistan spinner has moved in a format built for batters.
His record also includes two five-wicket hauls. His best bowling figures are 5-3, a reminder that when conditions or match-ups favour him, he can dismantle an innings quickly. For Pakistan cricket watchers who follow Afghanistan closely, the Rashid Khan T20I milestone is another marker of how central he has been to the side's white-ball rise.
An earlier 200-wicket mark in ODIs
The Sharjah landmark is not Rashid's first brush with a 200-wicket international ceiling. He became the first Afghanistan bowler to reach 200 ODI wickets during a match against Bangladesh in Abu Dhabi in October last year. Taken together, the ODI and T20I landmarks place him among the most productive Afghanistan bowlers of the modern era across the two white-ball formats.
Thursday's achievement does not change selection debates overnight, but it does fix a clear historical note: no men's player had previously claimed 200 T20I wickets, and Rashid Khan got there first, in Sharjah, against Zimbabwe.
Aasan alfaaz mein
Afghanistan ke Rashid Khan ne T20 International mein 200 wickets le liye hain. Woh is mark tak pahunchne wale pehle men's bowler hain. Yeh milestone Sharjah mein Zimbabwe ke khilaf match mein bana, jab unhon ne Tadiwanashe Marumani ko lbw kiya. Cricket fans ke liye yeh bari khabar hai, kyunke Rashid ab is format ke top wicket-takers mein bilkul akele number one par hain.
