England’s ongoing Take a look at 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 kind out his visa situation. Regardless of Bashir’s absence, England managed to drag off an enormous shock within the series-opener, beating India by 28 runs in Hyderabad. Bashir’s visa situation was resolved earlier than the beginning of the second Take a look at and he went on to make his debut, just for England to lose the sport in Visakhapatnam by 106 runs.
After India levelled the collection earlier this month, the England gamers left for the UAE for an prolonged break.
Nevertheless, 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 staff’s departure to Hyderabad for the primary Take a look at.
Robinson revealed that he solely acquired his visa on the morning of England’s staff Hyderabad-bound flight as a result 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 believe they should have simply put an preliminary fallacious, or one letter should have been fallacious. It did not cross. He was like, ‘you are not coming to India – it’s a must to keep right here for one more evening… it might be two nights, might be three nights, do not understand how lengthy it is going to 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 characteristic within the collection 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 situation, England vice-captain Ollie Pope hoped that the problem will likely be resolved forward of the match, starting on Thursday.
“Hopefully it (Ahmed’s visa situation) will likely 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 Take a look at which England received by 28 runs, whereas within the second Take a look at at Visakhapatnam he grabbed six wickets however India received by 106 runs to degree the five-match collection 1-1.
(With PTI Inputs)
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