West Indies legend Brian Lara, who’s at the moment in Australia as a part of the broadcasting group for the Assessments between the 2 sides, confirmed he has nonetheless bought it in an unimaginable nets session in opposition to Afghanistan’s star spinner Rashid Khan. The Afghanistan participant is in Australia for the Large Bash League, the place he represents the Adelaide Strikers. The BBL season begins on December 13 and Rashid’s Strikers will start their marketing campaign in opposition to Sydney Sixers the subsequent day.
Lara, an excellent spinner of spin throughout his time as energetic cricketer, reminded everybody that he nonetheless possesses the identical abilities as he showcased a sequence of spectacular strokes in opposition to the present World No.2 T20I bowler.
On two events, Lara, 54, produced good ft motion to create space for himself and play an beautiful sq. reduce in opposition to Rashid. The Afghanistan spinner could not assist however cross a smile as he noticed the West Indies legend attacking him, years after the previous’s retirement from the sport.
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Speaking about bowling to Lara, Rashid stated forward of the online session that he was “tremendous excited and nervous” to bowl to the previous Windies skipper.
“It’s unbelievable,” Khan stated, as quoted by FOX Sports activities Australia.
“As quickly as I heard that I used to be going to bowl to him I used to be tremendous excited and nervous as properly. It’s going to be a special day for me bowling to somebody like Brian Lara, who is a superb participant of spin bowling. I believe it’ll be an ideal problem for me.
“It’s not nearly successful and dropping, however I’m heaps proud to bowl to him.”
Through the session, Lara was given 12 runs to win off an over from the star spinner; nevertheless, it led to a tie with Lara showcasing his shot-making prowess throughout either side of the bottom.
Reacting to the session, Lara stated, “It was good enjoyable. Low trajectory. I believe Rashid is probably not in high type in the meanwhile, but it surely was simply superior and a privilege to face the nice man.”