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 capable of come to a short-term answer for the legspinner, with England optimistic the problem might be sorted totally within the subsequent 24 hours. All travelling squad members and help workers have been on the group lodge in Rajkot by Monday night.
“We have been suggested, on returning to India, that there was paperwork discrepancy with Rehan Ahmed’s visa,” the ECB stated through an announcement on Tuesday morning. “The native authorities at Rajkot Airport have been supportive, enabling Rehan entry on a brief visa. The right visa must be processed and issued within the coming days. He’ll proceed to arrange with the remainder of the squad forward of the third Take a look at.”
Like Bashir, Rehan was born in England and is of Pakistani heritage, however had no preliminary bother getting 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, on condition that the white-ball squad had remained in India at some stage in their World Cup marketing campaign, which ended on the group phases.
“The England group has been suggested to course of the visa once more which might be occurring within the subsequent two days,” a BCCI official was quoted as saying within the Hindustan Occasions. “The participant was allowed to enter the nation with the remainder of the group and he might be showing in observe on Tuesday.”
Both approach, it’s a drawback that ought to not have arisen given the high-profile nature of Bashir’s ordeal, and the very fact England’s six-day break within the UAE between the second and third Take a look at, which begins on Thursday, had been on the cardboard for months.
“There was an error on the ECB – I believe they should have simply put an preliminary flawed, or one letter should have been flawed. 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 might be two nights, might be three nights, do not know the way lengthy it may take.’ Fortunately, I wakened within the morning to a pleasant message from Wayne saying ‘visa’s right here’.”
Rehan has featured in each matches within the collection thus far, 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 Take a look at.
0520 GMT The information story was up to date after ECB’s assertion over the problem
