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Fazalhaq Farooqi: From a country known for virtuoso spinners has emerged a left-arm pacer fast becoming one of the best in the world

When Fazalhaq Farooqi was a teenager, his friends used to tease him for being a fast bowler. Spin bowling was such a frenzy in Afghanistan that some would suggest him to bowl left-arm wrist spin because he could play in a lot of franchise leagues that way.

“They were joking, of course, but that was the perception. In their mind, only Afghanistan spinners could play overseas leagues, not batsmen, and definitely not spinners,” Farooqi says in a Sunrisers Hyderabad video. But he listened to his inner voice and became a mould-breaker in Afghan cricket, the first of their genuine fast bowlers.

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