BCCI had banned, now this bowler became a shadow as soon as he came to Team India; 3 wickets taken in 5 balls

By News Update On Oct 22, 2024

Rasikh Salam picked 3 Wickets in 5 balls against UAE: The match between India-A and UAE was played on 21 October at Al Amerat Cricket Stadium in Oman. In this match, the sixth over of UAE's innings brought a young fast bowler from the Indian team and dominated. The young talented bowler of India-A broke the back of UAE's innings in a single over and became the hero of the match by taking 3 wickets one after the other.

Rasikh Salam took 3 wickets in just 5 balls

Here we are talking about 24 year old young Indian fast bowler Rasikh Salam. This fast bowler did tremendous work in the ACC Emerging Asia Cup being played in Oman. Rasikh caused such injury to UAE's batting order in a single over that he could not enter the match. Salam, who brought the sixth over of the innings for India-A, took 2 wickets in 2 consecutive balls in his very first over, after which he took another wicket on the 5th ball of the same over. In this way he achieved three successes in just five balls. Earlier, against Pakistan also, Rasikh Salam had bowled brilliantly and taken 2 wickets.

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He has faced a ban of 2 years for forging the mark sheet.

This is the bowler who was banned by BCCI for 2 years due to age fraud. Yes…it happened about 5 years ago. When this young fast bowler from Jammu was accused of tampering with his marksheet to join the Indian Under-19 team. Despite completing 19 years, he had used fake marksheet to play in Under-19. In which he stated his age as only 17 years. After this, BCCI showed strictness and banned Rasikh for 2 years.

A look at Rasikh Salam's career

This young fast bowler coming from Jammu and Kashmir has not got a chance to play many competitive matches till now, but whenever he got the chance, he has done wonders. Rasikh Salam has played 11 matches in IPL so far, in which he has taken 9 wickets. During this period, 3/34 has been his best performance. Apart from this, if we talk about the overall T20 career of this young player, he has taken 29 wickets in 25 matches. He has taken 9 wickets in 3 first class matches and 12 wickets in 7 List-A matches.