England’s ongoing Test 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 problem. Despite 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 problem was resolved earlier than the beginning of the second Test 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.
However, 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 workforce’s departure to Hyderabad for the primary Test.
Robinson revealed that he solely acquired his visa on the morning of England’s workforce Hyderabad-bound flight as a result of an error from the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB).
“He (Wayne Bentley, England’s manager) said, ‘your visa has been denied’ or something. There was an error at the ECB – I think they must have just put an initial wrong, or one letter must have been wrong. It didn’t pass. He was like, ‘you’re not coming to India – you have to stay here for another night… it could be two nights, could be three nights, don’t know how long it’s going to take.’ Luckily, I woke up in the morning to a nice message from Wayne saying ‘visa’s here’,” Robinson mentioned on his podcast, Chatting Balls.
Robinson is but to characteristic within the sequence with England enjoying one pacer in each video games to date. While Mark Wood performed in Hyderabad, veteran James Anderson changed him for the sport in Vizag.
Speaking on Rehan’s visa problem, England vice-captain Ollie Pope hoped that the difficulty might be resolved forward of the match, starting on Thursday.
“Hopefully it (Ahmed’s visa issue) will be sorted in a day or so,” mentioned Pope whereas addressing a press convention right here on Tuesday.
Ahmed took two wickets within the first Test which England received by 28 runs, whereas within the second Test at Visakhapatnam he grabbed six wickets however India received by 106 runs to stage the five-match sequence 1-1.
(With PTI Inputs)
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