Former England captain Kevin Pietersen has said Rashid Khan who is currently playing in the inaugural edition of ‘The Hundred’ is unable to get his family out of Afghanistan where ‘Taliban’ has taken over the control.
Commercial flight operations from around the world have been closed at the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul due to the ongoing crisis. No flight can fly over the Afghan airspace since the Taliban took over the country on Sunday. Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani has resigned and left the country.
“There’s a lot of things that are happening at home. We had a long chat here on the boundary talking about it and he’s worried: he can’t get his family out of Afghanistan and there’s a lot of things happening for him,” said Pietersen on Sky Sports.
He added, “For him to turn up and put on a performance like this under the pressure that he is currently under… for him to be able to forget that stuff and navigate his story and continue the momentum that he has — I think that’s probably one of the most heart-warming stories of this Hundred so far.”
Rashid is currently in the United Kingdom playing for Trent Rockets in The Hundred.
He took three wickets on Sunday to make his team win against Manchester Originals.
