Adil Rashid is England’s Mr Constant – he is hardly ever injured and virtually by no means out of shape.
Solely Sri Lanka’s Kusal Mendis has performed extra one-day internationals for the reason that 2015 World Cup, whereas in T20 internationals Rashid is eclipsed by solely Pakistan’s Babar Azam and Eire’s Paul Stirling in the identical timeframe.
Regardless of making his debut in each codecs in 2009, it wasn’t till the 2015 rebuild underneath Morgan that Rashid grew to become a fixture within the facet – and he has taken greater than 300 wickets within the decade since.
No different bowler on the planet has taken extra one-day wickets in that interval, and the subsequent three bowlers on the record – Rashid Khan, Adam Zampa and Kuldeep Yadav – are additionally leg-spinners.
There are greater turners of the ball (Jeffrey Vandersay) and a few get extra drift (Yuzvendra Chahal), however none have the entire management and mastery of his artwork that Rashid provides.
He’s the slowest of all of the leg-spinners who’ve bowled 500 deliveries in ODIs previously 5 years – which is a fairly deliberate tactic.
“Some leg-spinners look to bowl it actually fast, in need of a size and do not spin it as a lot,” Rashid instructed RAYNAE Sport.
“Some, like myself, prefer to bowl it a bit slower to try to beat individuals within the flight and get the drift, dip and spin.
“With T20 cricket, individuals have began to bowl a bit faster as a result of they do not need to get hit for sixes or fours however I have been introduced up inspired to get the ball above the eyeline, get the batsman driving, coming in direction of me and coming for me.”
