Afghanistan’s young sensation Rashid Khan single-handedly took his team, Sunrisers Hyderabad, to the finals of the IPL 2018 by his all-around performance against Kolkata Knight Riders in the second qualifier played at the Eden Gardens on Friday night.
Rashid is undoubtedly the most popular Afghanistan cricketer in the world and one of the biggest ambassadors for the game from the country. He scored unbeaten 34 off just 10 🐽balls and picked 3/19, as SRH defeated KKR by 14 runs and moved ♍into the finals.
SRH will now face CSK in the fin🐻al IPL encounter at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai on Sunday.
However, Indian cricket crazy fans have become a huge follower of the teenager and they took to Twitter to request Minister of Ext෴ernal Affairs of India, Sushma Swaraj to grant Rash💝id Khan Indian citizenship.
Here are some tweets from the fans:
madam .. Rashid Khan Ko indian citiඣzenship de do please
— oye_Hemant (@Hemantpant29)
What's the process to get Rashid Khan an Indian citizenship?
— T H O T A 🥭 (@thota_J)
Ple𒆙ase Indian government give Indian citizenship to this guy.
— Mask 🎭 (@Mr_LoLwa)
Ma'am , what we need to do to get Indian citizenship for Rashid Khan.
— A (@Resistance_ohm)
Is there any way, Rashid Khan 📖can be given Indian citizenship? We need🍨 him in our XI
— jeevan goud (@Jeevan_33)
Hello Ma'am please grant permanent visa and citizenship to Rashid Khan.
— Rishabh (@jokebazz)
I think Rashid Khan♎ could discover a new planet in the solar system or a new ele💦ment in the periodic table today
— Harsha Bhogle (@bhogleharsha)
Sushma Swaraj also took notice of all the tweets and responded in her usual witty manner saying, “I have seen all the tweets. Citizenship matters are dealt with by Ministry of Home affairs.”
Though sh♋e deleted the tweet a while later, but here is a screenshot of her reply.
She had previously acknowledged the increasing power of Afghanistan in cricket arena and when they received Test status, had said to PTI, “The fact that Afghanistan attained the status of a Test- playing cricketing nation is a testament to the indomitable spirit of the people of Afghanistan to not let the forces of death and destruction prevail.”
