Chetan Narula talks to Rashid Khan, the first Afghanistan player ever to play in the Indian Premier League

On April 12, at the Wankhede Stadium, Sunrisers Hyderabad set Mumbai Indians a target of 159 runs. It was a below-par score for the visitors, who now had to contend additionally with evening dew at this ground. The real theme of that chase though wasn’t how Mumbai won the game by four wickets.
Instead the focus was on a leg-spinner, from Afghanistan, who had already made headlines in the first week of this 2017 Indian Premier League season.
A few days prior to that game in Mum...