Adil Rashid

Adil Usman Rashid MBE is an English cricketer, born in Bradford, West Yorkshire, on 17 February 1988, who plays for England in One Day International and Twenty20 International cricket and previously played for the Test team. ^{1 2 3 4}

He plays as a right-arm leg-break bowler, is England's highest wicket-taker among spin bowlers in both ODIs and T20Is and, the article says, England's highest wicket-taker in T20Is overall, and was part of the England teams that won the 2019 Cricket World Cup and the 2022 T20 World Cup. ¹

Rashid was born in Bradford and is of Pakistani descent; like his England teammate Moeen Ali, he belongs to the Mirpuri community, his family having migrated to England in 1967 from Mirpur, Kashmir, and his brothers Haroon and Amar are also cricketers. Terry Jenner spotted him as a fourteen-year-old; in 2005 he took 6–13 for Yorkshire's Academy, and on his first-class debut in 2006 against Warwickshire he took 6/67 in the second innings to win the match for Yorkshire. In 2007 he won the Cricket Writers' Club and PCA Young Player of the Year awards. ¹

He made his ODI and T20I debuts in 2009, fell out of the national picture for years, then returned successfully after a six-year hiatus and became a fixture of the limited-overs sides; he played Tests from 2015 to 2019 (19 matches, 60 wickets). The article's career table gives him 164 ODIs with 243 wickets and 153 T20Is with 171 wickets. With Jos Buttler he holds the world record seventh-wicket stand in ODIs, 177 against New Zealand in 2015, and his best T20I figures, 4/2, came against the West Indies at the 2021 T20 World Cup. ¹

Domestically he has played for Yorkshire since 2006, winning back-to-back County Championships in 2014 and 2015, and has played in Twenty20 leagues in Australia, Bangladesh, India, South Africa and the Emirates. ¹

The sources report Rashid's practice of Islam without naming a school for him. In June 2022, widely carried ESPNcricinfo reporting described him as a practising Muslim granted leave by the ECB and Yorkshire to miss the India white-ball series and perform Hajj with his wife, quoting him that Hajj is one of the biggest things for Islam and being a Muslim, a big thing for his faith and for himself, and something he had committed to do while young, strong and healthy. ¹

He was appointed MBE in the King's Birthday Honours list of 2023 for services to cricket. ¹

His public significance lies in being, on the article's figures, England's most successful spin bowler in limited-overs cricket, a two-time World Cup winner, and a Bradford-born player of Mirpuri descent who reached the top of his craft while remaining with his single county club throughout his domestic career. ¹

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