Rookie Shoaib Bashir has been handed a shock call-up for England’s new yr Test tour of India, simply six months after making his first-class debut for Somerset.
The 20-year-old off-spinner has made simply six senior red-ball appearances, taking 10 wickets at a median of 67, however earned a spot on a current England Lions coaching camp within the United Arab Emirates and impressed sufficient to be fast-tracked into the principle squad.
Bashir is considered one of three uncapped gamers in a 16-strong group, although Lancashire’s left-arm spinner Tom Hartley and Surrey quick bowler Gus Atkinson have represented their nation in white-ball cricket and had been fancied to make the journey.
For Atkinson it’s a fast return to India having been within the World Cup squad.
Bashir represents a a lot daring alternative. Speaking to the Somerset web site only a matter of weeks in the past, he prompt he had not even anticipated to be concerned with the Lions this winter.
England made an analogous name this time final yr once they drafted teenager Rehan Ahmed for the tour of Pakistan. He went on to grow to be the nation’s youngest male Test cricketer at simply 18 and took 5 wickets on debut in Karachi.
Fresh from an encouraging ODI sequence within the Caribbean, leg-spinner Ahmed returns to the Test squad as a part of a slow-bowling group led by Jack Leach. Leach is match once more after a stress fracture of the again noticed him miss final summer time’s Ashes sequence.

England start the primary of 5 video games towards India in Hyderabad on January 25. Ben Stokes is hoping to be match to steer the facet however is at the moment in rehabilitation having undergone surgical procedure on his longstanding left knee harm.
Wicketkeeper Ben Foakes travels regardless of dropping the gloves to Jonny Bairstow towards Australia and may very well be a robust candidate to interrupt again into the primary alternative XI given the significance of the function within the sub-continent.
With Stuart Broad retired, there are 4 quick bowlers chosen: James Anderson, Ollie Robinson, Mark Wood and Atkinson.
England squad for Test tour of India: B Stokes (c), R Ahmed, J Anderson, G Atkinson, J Bairstow (wk), S Bashir, H Brook, Z Crawley, B Duckett, B Foakes (wk), T Hartley, J Leach, O Pope, O Robinson, J Root, M Wood.
1st Test: India v England, 25-29 January, Hyderabad
2nd Test: India v England, 2-6 February, Visakhapatnam
third Test: India v England, 15-19 February, Rajkot
4th Test: India v England, 23-27 February, Ranchi
fifth Test: India v England, 7-11 March, Dharamsala
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