Rashid Khan bowls Ryan Burl out after heated exchange
Sports TV's Sharjah clip shows an umpire separating the pair, then an animated send-off from the Afghanistan bowler.
Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 90,241 views a day, 29 times a normal first day on this channel (3,106).
An aggressive exchange of words, with Ryan Burl losing his cool #AFGvsZIM | M9T1H
The umpire steps between Ryan Burl and Rashid Khan, but their exchange has already stretched beyond the end of the over. Burl gestures toward the bowler; Rashid has words of his own. Sports TV's short highlight turns a passage of Afghanistan-Zimbabwe cricket into a tense encounter with a wicket at its finish.
The clip has drawn more than 62,000 views in its first 12 hours, already far beyond the channel's usual first-day audience for Shorts.
It begins with Burl defending a delivery and Rashid staring him down. As the exchanges continue, the commentators interpret the Afghanistan leg-spinner's behavior as an attempt to frustrate the batter. The edit also pairs Rashid blowing a kiss with Burl watching from the dugout, before showing the dismissal: Rashid bowls him out and follows it with an animated celebration and pointing send-off.
This is part of a broader burst of interest in Sports TV's cricket coverage. Its live broadcast and full highlights of the third T20 international at Sharjah are also drawing much larger audiences than usual for their respective formats. Alongside them, the channel's Hong Kong Sixes coverage includes Afghanistan-Australia final highlights and the Oman-Pakistan Plate final, both making faster starts than its regular highlights typically do.
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Where next?
- Channel
- Sports TV
- Subscribers
- 2,530,000 ▲ 40,000 this week
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 81,392,661
- Channel views, pace per day
- 17,914,568 (on a normal day: 8,108,681)
- Video published
- November 1, 2026
- Video views so far
- 62,146 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 90,241
The numbers
The Burl-Rashid clip is well ahead of Sports TV's usual Shorts start. The match broadcast and full highlights are also running above their own usual first-day pace.
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In which country is Sharjah Cricket Stadium?
Sharjah is one of the seven emirates that make up the United Arab Emirates.


