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    Adil Rashid: a Fletcher baby

    By Will 2 years ago, at the start of August Leave a comment on this post

    Hello faithful. I’m back.

    I hope Duncan Fletcher was sitting down today when he read of Adil Rashid’s exploits with bat and ball, in the second Test between England and India Under-19s.

    Rashid smashed 114 yesterday and followed this with 8 for 157 today. All this after his 6 for 67 on debut for Yorkshire demolished Warwickshire a mere ten days ago.

    Albeit fresh-faced, he epitomises what Fletcher seeks in his players. He is close to Fletcher’s summit of expectation, that most mouth-watering of prospects: a legspinning allrounder. Clearly it’s far, far too early to be talking of his future England prospects, but at the very least he is someone to keep an eye on.

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    3 Responses to “Adil Rashid: a Fletcher baby”

  • ClannZú wrote:
    August 3rd, 2006 at 10.37 pm

    Definitely someone to look out for in the future. Just trying to imagine Adil Rashid & Monty Panesar spinning Enland to victory in the sub-continent in a few years.

  • gary wrote:
    August 24th, 2006 at 7.31 pm

    in 8 years time in sydney it will be monty and adil rashid bowling in tandom against australia. what a prospect

  • Ian wrote:
    April 26th, 2007 at 10.50 pm

    I faced him when playing against yorkshire academy last year and I have to say he wa the best bowler I have ever faced without a dount. His quicker ball is unbeleivable.

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