Rashid Khan spoke to Hindustan Times last month about his ambitions for Afghanistan cricket. He said, "The big achievement that I want to have in my record is winning the World Cup." Rashid got 700 T20 wickets and wants to use his experience to help the team reach new heights.

Rashid spoke to Hindustan Times last month during the Friendship Cup match between Afghanistan and India at the Arun Jaitley Stadium about his white-ball plans, his ambitions and more:

Since then, our team has changed and our mindset has changed. Now the belief is that we can beat them because at that time, it was very difficult for us to beat Zimbabwe, Ireland, Bangladesh but that's where it started and then in the ICC World Cup, when we beat the 2016 World Cup champions – West Indies. We were the only team to beat them at the World Cup. It was a good journey, looking at it all, from 2015 to now, to see where our cricket has reached. It is an unbelievable journey and we beat big teams like England, New Zealand, Australia, Pakistan, all the teams.

We haven't beaten India yet but we will try to. It was a difficult journey but throughout the last decade I was with the team, I am happy that it went towards betterment. We will try to continue this and take it to the next level.

When we came, we also saw tough times, we tried to improve Afghanistan cricket and improve it and perform well. We tried to perform well, defeat big teams. We definitely discuss this with youngsters. They understand how Afghanistan cricket has come from one place and how difficult it was.

I have my personal achievements, the 700 wickets in T20, being player of the decade for four years. That was a big achievement for me. But the big achievement that I want to have in my record is winning the World Cup.

We were close in the 2024 World Cup, we went to the semi-final. But that is one thing that is always in my mind – that I win the World Cup for Afghanistan.

I believe no matter how much analysis is done, your planning has to be simple. There's no magic. I can’t instruct the ball to move here or there. But when you bring consistency, bowling in one area repeatedly, then the batters will also find it difficult.

You have to bowl in good areas in cricket, you have to bowl to the weakness of the batter relentlessly, only then will you get success.