Sportstar reported on Monday that Rehan had been prohibited from re-entering India after England’s mid-series break in Abu Dhabi as a result of he solely held a single-entry visa. Following a delay, native authorities have been in a position to come to a short-term answer for the legspinner, with England optimistic the problem can be sorted totally within the subsequent 24 hours. All travelling squad members and help employees have been at the workforce resort in Rajkot by Monday night.
Like Bashir, Rehan was born in England and is of Pakistani heritage, however had no preliminary hassle coming into the nation due to a visa he had secured in October as a stand-by for England’s 50-over World Cup squad. As such, that is extremely more likely to have been a clerical oversight by the ECB, provided that the white-ball squad had remained in India during their World Cup marketing campaign, which ended at the group phases.
“The England workforce has been suggested to course of the visa once more which can be taking place within the subsequent two days,” a BCCI official was quoted as saying within the Hindustan Instances. “The participant was allowed to enter the nation with the remainder of the workforce and he can be showing in follow on Tuesday.”
Both method, it’s a drawback that ought to not have arisen given the high-profile nature of Bashir’s ordeal, and the actual fact England’s six-day break within the UAE between the second and third Check, which begins on Thursday, had been on the cardboard for months.
“There was an error at the ECB – I feel they will need to have simply put an preliminary mistaken, or one letter will need to have been mistaken. It did not move. He was like, ‘you are not coming to India – it’s a must to keep right here for an additional night time… it could possibly be two nights, could possibly be three nights, do not know the way lengthy it should take.’ Fortunately, I awakened within the morning to a pleasant message from Wayne saying ‘visa’s right here’.”
Rehan has featured in each matches within the collection to date, taking eight wickets at 36.37 and scoring 70 runs at 17.80, which included a cameo of 23 at No.3 in England’s failed chase of 399 within the second Check.
