If England wanted to put a positive spin on a trip to Bangladesh that ended with a T20 series whitewash they could find it in the integration of a positive spinner. To watch Rehan Ahmed is to see a young cricketer apparently without fear. Parachuted into a squad full of World Cup winners, in difficult conditions and unfamiliar surroundings, the 18-year-old demanded the ball when in the field and the strike while at the crease.
“I think that comes quite natural for me,” he says. “When I was playing in clubs where there are so many proper first-class bowlers and I was only 13 or 14 and I wasn’t getting overs, I just kept asking the captain: ‘Give me overs, give me overs.’ That’s just something I’ve grown up with.
