- England’s Saqib Mahmood has lastly been granted his visa for his or her tour to India
- Mahmood will now have the ability to board the identical flight as his teammates on Friday
- He was meant to depart for the UAE final Thursday for a tempo bowling camp
England’s Saqib Mahmood has lastly been granted his visa for his or her tour to India which begins subsequent week and can have the ability to board the identical flight as his teammates, once they depart for the subcontinent on Friday.
Mail Sport completely revealed on Monday that Mahmood was scheduled to depart for the UAE final Thursday for a tempo bowling camp alongside Jofra Archer, Gus Atkinson, Brydon Carse and Mark Wooden however the ECB have been pressured to cancel his flight along with his passport nonetheless within the palms of the Indian Embassy, regardless that the paperwork was handed in final month.
Freezing circumstances within the UK left him unable to bowl open air whereas his teammates are within the UAE alongside fast-bowling mentor Jimmy Anderson.
Mahmood has spent the final week in limbo, awaiting a decision however was given the information on Thursday morning that his visa was granted and can have the ability to be part of the remainder of England’s touring celebration, along with his passport anticipated to be again with him later at present. England’s first T20 in opposition to India is in Kolkata subsequent Wednesday.
The 27-year-old was named Participant of the Collection in England’s final white-ball tour to the West Indies in November, the place he took 9 wickets in three matches and broke the file for essentially the most powerplay wickets claimed by an England bowler in a males’s sequence.
The UAE journey was deliberate to assist England’s seamers acclimatise to circumstances forward of the white-ball tour to India, which incorporates three ODI’s and 5 T20I’s and the following Champions Trophy which takes place in Pakistan and UAE subsequent month.
Saqib Mahmood has lastly been granted his visa for his or her tour to India which begins subsequent week and can have the ability to board the identical flight as his teammates
Mail Sport completely revealed on Monday that Mahmood was scheduled to depart for the UAE final Thursday for a tempo bowling camp
Final yr, Lancashire travelled to India with out Mahmood after failing to use for a visa and in 2019, the ECB didn’t receive a visa for Mahmood to journey to India as a part of an England Lions squad regardless of making use of properly prematurely, attributable to his Pakistani heritage.
That is the newest episode of visa issues for England gamers with Pakistani heritage after Shoaib Bashir was pressured to fly again to London on the eve of England’s Take a look at sequence in opposition to India final yr to acquire his visa and Rehan Ahmed was held in Rajkot as he solely had a single-entry visa.
