After historic win over Aussies, Rashid sends residence a message: ‘Roll up your sleeves… have a good time, dance’
(Clockwise from left): Afghanistan cricket followers have a good time in giant numbers in Khost province (ACB | X)/ Afghanistan gamers have a good time after their win towards Australia. (AP)
MOMENTS AFTER Afghanistan’s historic 21-run win over Australia within the Tremendous 8 recreation of the T20 World Cup at Kingstown, a video cropped up on the workforce’s social media account that conveyed what the conquest meant for the nation that has traditionally seen many invasions.
The clip had captain Rashid Khan, 25, and Man of the Match Gulbadin Naib, 33, passionately belting out a Pashto verse. There have been no subtitles. Perhaps, there was no want as this was the workforce’s two outdated fingers speaking on to the followers again residence.
Kandahar-born Delhi College PhD scholar and cricket fan Nazamudin Asar, after sharing his pleasure over his workforce’s possibilities of making it to the semifinal from a gaggle that has India and Australia, translated the verse. “’Roll up your sleeves, come have a good time and dance. Poor individuals like us not often get the prospect to get pleasure from as happiness belongs to those that are sturdy and wealthy…’ That’s what they had been singing, that’s precisely what Afghanistan feels as we speak,” Asar stated, earlier than including a typical self-deprecating Afghan contact. “Everyone seems to be on the streets. Final time this occurred was when there was an earthquake.” (READ MORE)