Pakistani-origin England pacer faced long visa delay

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VISA England pacer Saqib Mahmood. (FILE photo)

England volition question to India for a five-match T20I bid and a three-match ODI bid starting adjacent week. The visitors near for Kolkata connected Friday wherever the archetypal crippled volition beryllium played.

However, pacer Saqib Mahmood would articulation the squad precocious arsenic his visa was granted belatedly. Because of the archetypal delay, the 27-year-old missed the grooming campy successful UAE.

This is not the archetypal clip an England subordinate of Pakistan root had issues with visas. Last twelvemonth Shoaib Bashir excessively had issues with the aforesaid and helium missed the archetypal Test successful Hyderabad.

Bashir’s visa exertion was made successful December 2023, on with each of his England teammates, aft the touring enactment was announced. But portion the different players, arsenic good arsenic the coaching and enactment staff, received their visas good successful time, the 20-year-old Bashir had to enactment backmost successful the UAE wherever the England squad had a pre-tour grooming campy earlier leaving for India.

The Somerset off-spinner yet had to instrumentality to England erstwhile it was reportedly said that helium had to contiguous himself personally astatine the Indian High Commission to get a visa.

Leg-spinner Rehan Ahmed, different England subordinate with Pakistani roots, was besides successful the squad but helium has been allowed successful arsenic helium possessed the indispensable documents having been 1 of the standbys for the World Cup held successful India successful October-November.

England ODI Squad – India Tour & ICC Men’s Champions Trophy:

Jos Buttler (c), Jofra Archer, Gus Atkinson, Jacob Bethell, Harry Brook, Brydon Carse, Ben Duckett, Jamie Overton, Jamie Smith, Liam Livingstone, Adil Rashid, Joe Root, Saqib Mahmood, Phil Salt, Mark Wood

England T20I Squad – India Tour:

Jos Buttler (c), Rehan Ahmed, Jofra Archer, Gus Atkinson, Jacob Bethell, Harry Brook, Brydon Carse, Ben Duckett, Jamie Overton, Jamie Smith, Liam Livingstone, Adil Rashid, Saqib Mahmood, Phil Salt, Mark Wood

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