England’s Rehan Ahmed will be returning home as the England and Wales Cricket Board announced, adding that ECB will not be returning and a replacementfor the leg-spinner will not be named.
The 19-year-old leg-spinner who took 11 wickets in the first three matches.
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“Rehan Ahmed will return home for personal reasons with immediate effect from England Men’s Test tour of India. He will not be returning to India,” ECB said in a statement.
“England will not be replacing Ahmed for the rest of the tour,” the statement added.
The leg-spinner was replaced by off-spinner Shoaib Bashir in the England line-up for the fourth Test of the five-match series at the JSCA International Stadium Complex in Ranchi.
There is just one game remaining in the five-Test series and England have another spinner in their squad in left-arm tweaker Tom Hartley, who is their highest wicket-taker so far in the tour with 16 scalps.
Earlier this month, Ahmed, who is of Pakistani descent, had faced visa issues after arriving from the UAE for the third Test.
He had a single-entry visa that expired once he left for a mid-series break to the UAE, and was initially stopped at the Rajkot airport upon arrival before it was resolved due to the intervention of the Indian government and the BCCI.
The tourists trail the five-match series 2-1 after two straight losses and need to win or draw in Ranchi to avoid losing the series with a game to spare. England had won the opening Test by 28 runs but lost the next two matches by 106 runs and 434 runs respectively.
India’s Virat Kohli had opted out of the series due to personal reasons and on Tuesday announced the arrival of his second child, a boy, with Bollywood wife Anushka Sharma.
(With inputs from Agencies)
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