Young England leg-spinner Rehan Ahmed was held by Indian immigration officers right here on Monday night after it was discovered that he arrived with a single-entry visa.
England’s Rehan Ahmed celebrates the wicket of India’s Ravichandran Ashwin in the course of the third day of the second Test match between India and England(PTI)
An individual holding a single-entry visa shouldn’t be allowed to exit and re-enter the nation. The England group returned to India after having fun with a 10-day break in Abu Dhabi between the second and the third Test via an Abu Dhabi-Rajkot chartered flight.
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“The England team has been advised to process the visa again which will be happening in the next two days. The player was allowed to enter the country with the rest of the team and he will be appearing in practice on Tuesday,” a BCCI official mentioned.
This was the primary occasion the place a global flight landed straight in Rajkot. For this goal, a short lived immigration counter was arrange with officers from Jamnagar overseeing the work. Rehan was the one one from the 31-member English contingent who didn’t have the appropriate visa.
Rehan turned England’s youngest males’s Test cricketer to take 5 wickets on Test debut in Karachi in opposition to Pakistan final 12 months. Ahmed was born in Nottingham in 2004 to father Naeem, a former fast-bowling all-rounder from Pakistan.
Rehan is among the three younger spinners to have impressed on the Indian tour, alongside left-arm spinner Tom Hartley and off-spinner Shoaib Bashir – each made their debuts right here. Rehan has picked eight wickets within the two Tests but. The trio will now be shouldering the spin-burden on tour after Jack Leach was dominated out because of damage.
So far, England have employed a three-spinner technique alongside a sole quick bowler. James Anderson performed the Visakhapatnam Test match whereas Mark Wood was seen in motion in Hyderabad. Joe Root is the opposite spin bowling choice within the aspect.
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