Teenage leg-spinner is called up as cover for Moeen AliAhmed took seven wickets on his debut against Pakistan
In a bold move straight out of the Bazball handbook, Ben Stokes and Brendon McCullum have plucked teenage leg-spinner Rehan Ahmed out of Leicestershire and added him to the England squad as cover for Moeen Ali for the second Ashes Test at Lord’s.
Ahmed, who is just 18, made his Test debut against Pakistan in Karachi last year, took seven wickets in the match and displayed the sort of big-match temperament that England are now looking for. But his international experience is limited to that one Test, a single ODI and two Twenty20s.
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