RAJKOT, India (AP) — After a tense 48 hours waiting to secure a visa, Rehan Ahmed was chosen by England for the third cricket check towards India beginning Thursday.

The 19-year-old legspinner was initially denied entry to India when England’s squad returned on Monday from a mid-series break within the United Arab Emirates. He solely held a single-entrance digital visa, which he used forward of the beginning of the test series that stands at 1-1.

Ahmed was granted an emergency two-day visa, permitting him to coach in Rajkot on Tuesday, and the state of affairs has now been resolved.

England captain Ben Stokes, who might be making his one hundredth check look, stated he had no hesitation selecting Ahmed within the workforce.

“I don’t know how we ended up being in that situation but when it came up, we were straight on to doing what we needed to do to get Rehan in rather than wasting time trying to find out whose fault it was,” Stokes stated Wednesday. “The beauty of youth is they simply take all the pieces of their stride. He dealt with a state of affairs that would have affected fairly lots of people another way very, very effectively for such a younger child.

“There was no thoughts around not playing him this week. The test matches he’s played so far, he’s done very, very well and everything we’ve asked of him he’s gone out and tried to deliver.”

For that purpose, England caught with Ahmed and selected to depart put one other spinner, Shoaib Bashir, who himself was hit with visa problems initially of the tour.

The 20-year-old Bashir missed the primary check in consequence and made his worldwide debut the second check, which India received by 106 runs final week to sq. the sequence.

With Stokes and coach Brendon McCullum opting to start out with two quick bowlers for the primary time this sequence, pacer Mark Wood was recalled to hitch James Anderson and Bashir dropped out. Ahmed and Tom Hartley would be the spinners, with Jack Leach — the senior spinner within the touring squad — ruled out of the series due to a knee harm.

Stokes stated the choice was primarily based on how the Rajkot pitch performed in England’s high-scoring draw towards India in 2016.

“Bringing in an extra seamer this week is the option we’ve gone with because we think it’s going to give us the best chance of winning this week,” Stokes stated.

India has but to announce its workforce.

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India (from): Rohit Sharma (captain), Jasprit Bumrah, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Shubman Gill, Rajat Patidar, Sarfaraz Khan, Dhruv Jurel, KS Bharat, Ravichandran Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Axar Patel, Washington Sundar, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohd. Siraj, Mukesh Kumar, Akash Deep, Devdutt Padikkal.

England: Zak Crawley, Ben Duckett, Ollie Pope, Joe Root, Jonny Bairstow, Ben Stokes (captain), Ben Foakes, Rehan Ahmed, Tom Hartley, Mark Wood, James Anderson.

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