Afghanistan · All-Rounder

Rashid Khan Age, Career Stats, Records and IPL Salary

Rashid Khan Arman is an Afghan leg-spin bowling all-rounder who was 27 on 11 August 2026. He captained Afghanistan to their first senior men's World Cup semi-final in 2024, although Ibrahim Zadran replaced him as T20I captain in March 2026. Gujarat Titans retained Rashid for IPL 2026, where he produced 4 for 33 against Rajasthan Royals and played in the final. His latest individually disclosed IPL retention deduction is INR 18 crore from the official 2025 retention document; the 2026 retention announcement confirms his place but does not publish a replacement individual fee.

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Right-handedRight-arm leg-break googly bowlerBorn 20 September 1998

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Full nameRashid Khan Arman

Age27As of 11 August 2026

Date of birth20 September 1998Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan

Batting styleRight-handed

Bowling styleRight-arm leg-break googly

Career overview

Rashid Khan cricket career

Rashid Khan Arman was born on 20 September 1998 in Nangarhar Province and was 27 on the checked date.

He bowls right-arm leg-break and googly and contributes attacking lower-order runs.

The current dated snapshot lists 193 wickets in 115 men's T20 internationals.

He was the fastest bowler to 100 ODI wickets, reaching the mark in 44 matches in 2018.

As captain, he led Afghanistan to their first senior men's World Cup semi-final in 2024.

Gujarat Titans retained him for IPL 2026 after an official INR 18 crore retention deduction in 2025.

Career story

Rashid Khan career and playing journey

Who is Rashid Khan?

Rashid Khan Arman is an Afghan international whose leg-spin, control and fast-scoring lower-order batting have made him one of cricket's most travelled short-format players. The Afghanistan Cricket Board lists him as a Grade A all-rounder, while the IPL uses bowler as his primary specialisation.

Those teams are chapters in one career, not separate Rashid Khan identities. This matters for scorecard linking: a wicket taken for Afghanistan and a late cameo for Gujarat must resolve to the same permanent player URL while retaining the correct competition, team and date.

Rashid Khan age, birthplace and playing style

Rashid was born on 20 September 1998 and was 27 on 11 August 2026. The ACB directory and official IPL profile agree on the date. His structured biography uses Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan, rather than asserting a more specific village when reliable profiles differ in how they describe his birthplace. The province-level label is accurate enough for identity without pretending that every secondary biographical detail is settled.

He bats right-handed and bowls leg-break googly. His quicker release, compact run-up and ability to hide the direction of turn reduce a batter's reaction time. The googly is not a separate bowling style; it is the ball that turns the opposite way from his conventional leg-break. In T20 cricket he combines that deception with a low economy rate, while his unconventional hitting gives teams useful runs late in an innings.

Afghanistan debut and rapid international rise

Rashid made his ODI debut against Zimbabwe in October 2015 and entered T20 international cricket on the same tour. He was still a teenager when his control and wicket-taking separated him from most developing spin prospects. Afghanistan's growing international schedule gave him opportunity, but the speed of his progress came from converting those matches into decisive spells rather than simply accumulating appearances against a narrow group of opponents.

The ICC's 2018 analysis noted that only eight of his first 100 ODI wickets had come against Scotland, UAE or Hong Kong; the remaining 92 were against Test-status teams Bangladesh, West Indies, Zimbabwe and Ireland. That breakdown matters because it addresses the easy but incomplete argument that early Afghanistan records were built only against weaker opposition. The opponents and tournament context should remain attached to milestone claims.

Five for 3 against Ireland

Rashid's T20 international best is 5 for 3 against Ireland in March 2017. The ICC's Player of the Decade review records that he took five wickets in ten balls after Ireland had reached 64 for 2 while chasing a reduced target. Afghanistan won by 17 runs. The spell captures his central value: wickets arrived quickly without requiring a large run concession beforehand.

A career-best return should not become the only explanation for a long T20 record. Rashid's influence also comes from overs in which batters avoid risk and leave a higher required rate for other bowlers. That pressure is harder to isolate than a five-wicket haul, but the combination of wickets, average and economy across more than 100 internationals shows why opponents have often treated his four overs as a distinct tactical problem.

Seven for 18 and fastest to 100 ODI wickets

Rashid took 7 for 18 against West Indies in Gros Islet in June 2017, his best ODI figures. In March 2018 he trapped Shai Hope during the World Cup Qualifier final to become the fastest bowler to 100 ODI wickets. The ICC records that he needed 44 matches, improving the previous mark of 52 held by Mitchell Starc. He was not yet 20.

The milestone came with a bowling average below 15 and economy below four at that point. Those early rates have naturally changed as his career expanded into more tournaments and opponents adapted. The current dated table lists 214 ODI wickets from 120 matches at 19.92. Reporting both the record moment and the later aggregate shows progression without freezing his career at the most flattering early cutoff.

Youngest men's No.1 ODI bowler

Before reaching 100 ODI wickets, Rashid became the youngest man to top any ICC player ranking. The ICC calculated his age at 7,092 days when he reached No.1 in the ODI bowling table in February 2018. He had just taken 16 wickets in Afghanistan's 4-1 series win in Sharjah at an average of 7.9. Ranking points measure performance over a defined period, not permanent status.

That distinction prevents an old ranking from being presented as current. Rashid's significance is that he reached the summit unusually early and did so while Afghanistan were still establishing themselves among full members. The achievement also demonstrates that governing-body rankings had begun to recognise Afghanistan performances on the same published scale as established international teams. Later rankings should be checked separately whenever the page is updated.

Four wickets in four balls

Against Ireland at Dehradun in February 2019, Rashid became the first bowler to take four wickets in four consecutive deliveries in men's T20 internationals. His first three wickets completed a hat-trick, and the fourth extended the sequence across two overs. The ICC match report identifies Kevin O'Brien, George Dockrell, Shane Getkate and Simi Singh as the four dismissed batters.

The sequence was part of a five-wicket haul and helped Afghanistan complete a 3-0 series win. Later bowlers joined the four-in-four list, so Rashid should be described as the first in men's T20Is rather than the only player ever to do it. Precise wording protects a genuine record from becoming outdated as cricket history grows. The original match report remains the best source for the event.

Test cricket and the youngest winning captain

Rashid debuted in Afghanistan's first Test, against India in Bengaluru in June 2018. His Test career is much smaller than his limited-overs record, but six matches produced 45 wickets in the dated table. He has five five-wicket innings and three ten-wicket matches, with best innings figures of 7 for 66. Small sample size and high wicket density should both be visible.

In September 2019, Rashid led Afghanistan to victory over Bangladesh in Chattogram and became the youngest captain to win a Test, aged 20 years and 350 days. ICC recorded that it was Afghanistan's second Test win in only their third match. Captaincy and personal performance overlapped, but the result belonged to the team. The achievement is best described as a leadership record, not proof of a long Test captaincy era.

Fastest to 100 T20I wickets

Rashid reached 100 men's T20 international wickets against Pakistan during the 2021 T20 World Cup. The ICC records that he required 53 matches, faster than Lasith Malinga, Shakib Al Hasan and Tim Southee at the time. He became only the fourth man to enter the 100-wicket club, six years after his debut. The speed of the milestone reflects both availability and an exceptional wicket rate.

By 2 September 2025 he had moved to the top of the men's T20I wicket list, overtaking Southee with a three-wicket spell against UAE. Because record leadership can change, the page states the cutoff rather than calling a dynamic total permanent. The ICC player page also identifies his international span through 2026.

ICC Men's T20I Cricketer of the Decade

The ICC named Rashid Men's T20I Cricketer of the Decade for the 2011-2020 period. He took 89 wickets in 48 matches during the award window at an average of 12.62 and economy of 6.14. Those are period statistics, not his whole career totals. The award also placed him in the ICC Men's T20I Team of the Decade.

The recognition combined repeated wickets, run control and match-defining spells such as 5 for 3. It is a formal ICC award rather than an informal best-player label. The distinction matters for schema and achievements: This profile can list a named honour with its time window and source, while avoiding an unsupported claim that any player is objectively the greatest for all time.

Captaining Afghanistan to the 2024 semi-final

Rashid captained Afghanistan during their historic 2024 Men's T20 World Cup campaign. Wins over Australia and Bangladesh in the Super Eight stage carried the team into its first senior men's World Cup semi-final. The ICC's Bangladesh report records Rashid winning the toss, contributing a late batting cameo and leading the defence before Naveen-ul-Haq completed the victory.

South Africa ended the run in the semi-final after Afghanistan were dismissed for 56. A complete account includes that defeat as well as the breakthrough. Reaching the last four changed Afghanistan's tournament history, but it did not produce a title. Rashid's captaincy achievement is the first semi-final qualification and the sequence of victories required to get there, not an invented claim that the team won the event.

Rashid Khan is no longer Afghanistan's T20I captain

Some current directory text still labels Rashid as Afghanistan's T20I captain, including an ACB player card crawled in August 2026. A newer ICC announcement dated 5 March 2026 reports that Ibrahim Zadran replaced him after Afghanistan's group-stage exit at the 2026 T20 World Cup. This profile follows the newer dated decision and does not show Rashid as the current captain.

The change does not erase his earlier leadership record. He remains in the announced ODI and T20I squads for the subsequent Sri Lanka series, while the captaincy field belongs to Zadran in T20Is and Hashmatullah Shahidi in ODIs. Separating player selection from captaincy prevents a stale team directory from turning into a visible factual error. The source conflict is retained in the editorial provenance rather than hidden.

Sunrisers Hyderabad and IPL arrival

Sunrisers Hyderabad signed Rashid before IPL 2017, making him one of the first Afghan players in the competition. The official IPL profile credits him with 93 wickets for Sunrisers between 2017 and 2021 at an economy of 6.33, the most wickets for the franchise in that span. He became a regular middle-overs option capable of attacking without giving batters easy boundary balls.

His success helped prove that an Afghanistan player could be central to a major franchise rather than a novelty selection. The IPL period also widened his experience against international batters and on Indian surfaces. It should not replace his national-team story: franchise opportunity grew from Afghanistan performances, and the two tracks developed together.

Gujarat Titans title, hat-trick and 79 not out

Rashid joined Gujarat Titans for their inaugural 2022 season and helped them win the IPL title. In 2023 he took 27 wickets in 17 matches, his most productive IPL season according to the official player profile. That campaign included a hat-trick against Kolkata Knight Riders while he was leading the team in Hardik Pandya's absence.

The same 2023 season produced his highest IPL score, 79 not out from 32 balls against Mumbai Indians. Gujarat lost that match, so the innings should not be called match-winning. It nevertheless strengthened the evidence for an all-rounder label in T20 cricket: his batting is not consistent enough for a top-order role, but it can change the final overs and force opponents to keep planning after the recognised batters are dismissed.

Rashid Khan IPL 2026 performance

Gujarat retained Rashid for IPL 2026. On 9 May he took 4 for 33 against Rajasthan Royals in Jaipur and was named Player of the Match as Gujarat won by 77 runs. The official report describes how his middle-over wickets triggered a collapse from a fast start. That single spell provides a current-season performance instead of relying only on reputation from earlier campaigns.

Gujarat reached the 2026 final against Royal Challengers Bengaluru. Rashid dismissed Rajat Patidar and Krunal Pandya within four balls, but RCB completed the chase and retained the title. He therefore finished the season as a finalist, not a champion. The official profile now lists 153 IPL appearances, while unavailable aggregate fields are not reconstructed from scattered scorecards. A licensed feed can add the full season table later.

Franchise career beyond the IPL

Rashid's catalog memberships extend beyond Gujarat Titans to MI Cape Town, MI London and MI Emirates, alongside earlier teams in other leagues. The current This profile catalog uses official team directories and dated roster announcements. A franchise may list him as bowler or all-rounder depending on its taxonomy; those labels do not create different people or permit career totals to be reset.

The Wikipedia snapshot lists 542 T20 matches, 729 wickets and 3,001 runs through 19 July 2026. That all-competition table captures the scale of a global franchise career better than an IPL-only total, but it is secondary and date-bound. Official competition rows take priority when available. Team pages should link back to this profile only after publication, and historical teams should remain visible even when the current-team strip changes.

Rashid Khan IPL contract value and net worth

The official IPL 2025 retained-players document assigns Rashid Khan an INR 18 crore retention deduction for Gujarat Titans. The official 2026 retention announcement confirms that Gujarat retained him among 20 players but does not publish a new individual payment beside his name. This profile therefore identifies INR 18 crore as the latest individually disclosed IPL retention figure, not an assumed 2026 take-home salary.

No reviewed audited filing establishes Rashid Khan's net worth. Franchise deductions, tournament contracts, sponsorships, taxes, agent fees, charitable activity and private investments are different categories. Adding speculative website estimates would create false precision. The useful answer is the IPL figure and its year, with a clear boundary around what the public documents do not reveal.

Family, marriage and private life

Rashid has spoken publicly about a large family and the effect of conflict and displacement on his childhood, but reliable official sources do not provide a complete family register. This page does not name private relatives merely because secondary celebrity sites do.

Public reporting in 2024 described Rashid marrying in Kabul, but the reviewed governing-body sources do not identify a spouse for publication. This profile therefore records no girlfriend claim and does not invent a spouse biography. Relationship status is not required to understand his career, and privacy takes priority when the player has not provided dependable details through an official profile or direct statement.

Understanding the career statistics

ICC reports verify the major milestones: fastest to 100 ODI wickets, fastest to 100 T20I wickets, the 2025 T20I wicket record and formal decade award. IPL reports verify current squad status and named 2026 match performances. These sources have different cutoffs and are never silently blended.

Fields absent from the structured table are omitted from display rather than shown as empty placeholders or guessed. Official current data outranks the secondary snapshot whenever the two conflict. The captaincy correction demonstrates that rule in practice: ACB's player card remained stale, but the later ICC announcement documented Ibrahim Zadran's appointment. Every future refresh should preserve the source date and the reason for any override.

Current status and single update path

As of 11 August 2026, Rashid remains an Afghanistan international and a retained Gujarat Titans player. He is no longer the current T20I captain under the March 2026 decision. His current franchise memberships can overlap because league calendars differ.

Future official scorecards can update match figures and result links without changing the player URL. A move to another franchise should add or update membership data, not create a new page.

Rashid Khan records

Rashid Khan career statistics and records

Batting, bowling and fielding figures are kept separate by competition and format.

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