England’s ongoing Check tour of India has been stuffed with ups and downs. The guests arrived within the sub-cotinent with out spinner Shoaib Bashir, who needed to fly again to England from the United Arab Emirates to type out his visa concern. Regardless of Bashir’s absence, England managed to tug off an enormous shock within the series-opener, beating India by 28 runs in Hyderabad. Bashir’s visa concern was resolved earlier than the beginning of the second Check and he went on to make his debut, just for England to lose the sport in Visakhapatnam by 106 runs.
After India levelled the sequence earlier this month, the England gamers left for the UAE for an prolonged break.
Nonetheless, on their return to India, spinner Rehan Ahmed was stopped from leaving the airport in Rajkot as he solely had a single-entry visa.
Now, England pacer Ollie Robinson has revealed that even he had a visa associated downside earlier than the group’s departure to Hyderabad for the primary Check.
Robinson revealed that he solely acquired his visa on the morning of England’s group Hyderabad-bound flight because of an error from the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB).
”He (Wayne Bentley, England’s supervisor) stated, ’your visa has been denied’ or one thing. There was an error on the ECB – I feel they will need to have simply put an preliminary unsuitable, or one letter will need to have been unsuitable. It did not move. He was like, ’you are not coming to India – you must keep right here for an additional evening… it may very well be two nights, may very well be three nights, do not know the way lengthy it will take.’ Fortunately, I wakened within the morning to a pleasant message from Wayne saying ’visa’s right here’,” Robinson stated on his podcast, Chatting Balls.
Robinson is but to function within the sequence with England enjoying one pacer in each video games to date. Whereas Mark Wooden performed in Hyderabad, veteran James Anderson changed him for the sport in Vizag.
Talking on Rehan’s visa concern, England vice-captain Ollie Pope hoped that the difficulty might be resolved forward of the match, starting on Thursday.
”Hopefully it (Ahmed’s visa concern) might be sorted in a day or so,” stated Pope whereas addressing a press convention right here on Tuesday.
Ahmed took two wickets within the first Check which England received by 28 runs, whereas within the second Check at Visakhapatnam he grabbed six wickets however India received by 106 runs to degree the five-match sequence 1-1.
(With PTI Inputs)
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