England encountered extra visa points on Monday when their younger leg spinner Rehan Ahmed was intercepted by authorities at the Hirasar airport in Rajkot on Monday (February 12) from coming into town as the English crew made its manner back to the nation from Dubai.
It is believed that the Nottingham-born didn’t have the required paperwork and therefore the airport authorities intercepted him.
As per a report in Sportstar, Rehan solely had a single-entry visa and that led to the difficulty whereas the opposite English gamers have been allowed to try.
Notably, this isn’t the primary time an England participant has encountered visa points whereas coming into the nation.
Shoaib Bashir, England’s newly found spin weapon, could not arrive in time with the remainder of the squad due to a delay within the issuing of his visa. As a outcome, Bashir was not accessible for choice within the first Test of the five-match sequence at the Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium in Hyderabad.
England’s pacer, Ollie Robinson, narrowly escaped a visa row himself after he acquired his visa simply within the nick of time earlier than England boarded the flight to Hyderabad from Abu Dhabi for the primary Test.
“There was an error at the ECB – I think they must have just put an initial wrong, or one letter must have been wrong. It didn’t pass. He was like, ‘you’re not coming to India – you have to stay here for another night… it could be two nights, could be three nights, don’t know how long it’s going to take.’ Luckily, I woke up in the morning to a nice message from Wayne saying ‘visa’s here’,” Robinson revealed on his podcast, Chatting balls.
England’s Test squad:
Zak Crawley, Ben Duckett, Ollie Pope, Joe Root, Jonny Bairstow, Ben Stokes (c), Ben Foakes (wk), Rehan Ahmed, Tom Hartley, Shoaib Bashir, James Anderson, Mark Wood, Ollie Robinson, Daniel Lawrence, Gus Atkinson.
