Rashid Khan Sinks To New Low, Registers EMBARRASSING RECORD In IPL 2025

13 innings. 8 wickets. 55.1 Average. 9.4 Economy. 

If you were to travel back in time and tell someone that Rashid Khan will register numbers like this in an IPL season, they’d have told you to stop joking. 

But here we are. 13 games into IPL 2025, with the playoffs nearing, Rashid has been the worst and the most ineffective spinner in the competition, proving to be the weak link in the Gujarat Titans’ attack. Imagine saying that before the season began. 

On the night, it wasn’t until the 12th over that Rashid was introduced into the attack. Skipper Shubman Gill held back his ‘trump card’ so that he could tackle Nicholas Pooran in the middle overs. 

Rashid began his spell bowling to Mitchell Marsh, someone generally considered ‘weak’ against spin, but that did not matter as the leg-spinner got walloped for 25 runs in his very first over.  6 4 6 4 4 1. 

It sort of proved to be the turning point of the LSG innings. After 11 overs, the visitors were 107/1, in control but not running away with the contest. But things turned upside down after Rashid’s first over: LSG ended up finishing with 235/2. 

The punishment did not end with the Marsh over for Rashid as he got tonked for another six by Pooran in his second over. He ended with 0/36 off the 2 overs he bowled, failing to bowl his quota of four overs despite, on paper, being GT’s trump card. 

The six Pooran hit in his second over was the 26th six conceded by Rashid in IPL 2025 - no bowler has conceded more in IPL 2025. 

Most sixes conceded in IPL 2025

Rashid Khan - 26*

Khaleel Ahmed - 25

Ravi Bishnoi - 25

Matheesha Pathirana - 23

Yuzvendra Chahal - 21

Rashid also went wicketless for the seventh time this season, his most in any edition of the IPL.

GT hoped Rashid would be a difference maker, which is why they retained him for INR 18 crore. But the Afghan talisman has proven to be a liability. Alarming signs for the 2022 champions heading into the playoffs.