Rehan Ahmed, 18, will get England white-ball call-up for Bangladesh tour

England picked teenage leg-spinner Rehan Ahmed in its white-ball squad for the primary time on Thursday forward of subsequent month’s tour of Bangladesh.

The 18-year-old Leicestershire bowler turned England’s youngest males’s Test cricketer in opposition to Pakistan in Karachi in December and marked his debut in fashion with a five-wicket haul.

Ahmed had performed simply three First Class matches earlier than making his Test bow, however has extra expertise in white-ball cricket, having appeared recurrently for his county facet.

Saqib Mahmood has been included within the one-day worldwide squad for the primary time since struggling a stress fracture of the again in May final 12 months.

But there was no place for Alex Hales, with the big-hitting batter set to honour his contract to play within the Pakistan Super League after solely returning to England responsibility final 12 months.

Hales was a key determine in England’s T20 World Cup triumph in Australia in November after a constructive check for leisure drug use got here to gentle on the eve of the 2019 50-over World Cup led to greater than three years of worldwide exile.

England will play three ODIs and three T20s in Bangladesh from March 1 to 14.

The T20 fixtures are their first within the format since Jos Buttler’s males turned world champions, including to their 50-over world title.

Squads

ODI squad: Jos Buttler (Lancashire, capt/wkt), Tom Abell (Somerset), Rehan Ahmed (Leicestershire), Moeen Ali (Warwickshire), Jofra Archer (Sussex), Sam Curran (Surrey), Saqib Mahmood (Lancashire), Dawid Malan (Yorkshire), Adil Rashid (Yorkshire), Jason Roy (Surrey), Phil Salt (Lancashire), Reece Topley (Surrey), James Vince (Hampshire), Chris Woakes (Warwickshire), Mark Wood (Durham)

T20 squad: Buttler, Abell, Ahmed, Ali, Archer, Curran, Ben Duckett (Nottinghamshire), Will Jacks (Surrey), Chris Jordan (Surrey), Malan, Rashid, Salt, Topley, Woakes, Wood

Source web site: sportstar.thehindu.com

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