Afghanistan’s performance in the 50-over World Cup surprised everyone. Although they did not reach the semifinals, the thing that stood between them was Glenn Maxwell’s double ton in Mumbai. However, in the 2024 T20 World Cup, they did get over that line and made it to the semifinal, and lost to South Africa. With improvements in their performances and the quality of individual cricketers they possess, Afghanistan was touted as the second-best team in Asia after India. But Afghanistan skipper Rashid Khan was not too happy with the tag and made it clear it was more of a media-driven narrative.

“There is one thing which is always going around the media, people calling us the second-best Asian team,” Rashid told the media ahead of a T20I series against Bangladesh. “We didn’t say that, but I

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