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Brimming with confidence, star Afghanistan leg-spinner Rashid Khan on Thursday said that his team is eyeing the semi-final spot in the ongoing T20 World Cup.
Afghanistan thumped Scotland in their opener and the players know their performance could lift the pall of gloom back home.
“What is in our hand is to play the five games of this group stage and try to qualify to the semi-finals and make the country proud,” Rashid said.
“…what’s going to happen in the future, that will come with time,” added the 23-year-old, one of franchise cricket’s most sought-after players.
“If we have so many things on our mind, that might affect our performance, and the fans will be upset when you don’t perform as a team.”
The International Cricket Council (ICC) will meet next month to discuss the game’s future in the south Asian country under the Taliban rule.
Cricket Australia has threatened to postpone next month’s one-off test against Afghanistan in Hobart if the Taliban government, which took power in August, did not allow women and girls to play the sport.
“To be honest, at the moment, we don’t have anything in mind,” Rashid, Afghan cricket’s brightest star, said ahead of Friday’s Super 12 Group II match against Pakistan.
“We have only this thing in the mind that we’re here for the World Cup and we’re playing five games and we need to win three games.
“No, we don’t think about what’s happening in the future. We don’t think about what happened in the past. That is something which is not in our hands, that is not in our control…”
