Rehan Ahmed

Having been handed his cap by Nasser Hussain before receiving a warm hug from his father who was permitted to join the team huddle, he only had to wait until ...

In the morning, the tourists had almost immediately turned to spin, with Jack Leach becoming the first England spinner to open the bowling in the first innings of a match since 1921, when Jack White did so against Australia at Headingley. [Sonia Twigg](/author/sonia-twigg) [Rehan Ahmed](/topic/rehan-ahmed) claimed his first Test wicket in the afternoon session of his debut as [England](/topic/england) claimed wickets at key moments to reduce [Pakistan](/topic/pakistan) to 204 for five at tea on day one at Karachi. [Nasser Hussain](/topic/nasser-hussain) before receiving a warm hug from his father who was permitted to join the team huddle, he only had to wait until the 17th over to bowl his first ball in Test cricket.

The teenager soon took his first wicket - that of Pakistani batter Saud Shakeel. Ahmed was given his debut by former England captain Nasser Hussain.

I think we're going to be commentating on you really soon." The youngest person to play a Test for England was Holly Colvin, who was 15 years and 336 days when she played for the women's team against Australia in 2005. He made his debut - aged just 18 years and 126 days - in the third Test against Pakistan in Karachi.

Rehan Ahmed took two wickets as he became the youngest man to play Test cricket for England, with the leg-spinner impressing as Ben Stokes' side enjoyed a ...

Stokes gave him an hour in the field to gather himself before he called on him once more just after drinks, and this is where we got to see the player that we should all be so excited about. Googly, then leg spinner and it worked.” As the day wore on Pakistan’s batters found fantastically careless ways of getting out either chipping full tosses into the deep to be caught or running themselves out with kamikaze singles. [Ben Stokes](https://www.mirror.co.uk/all-about/ben-stokes) called on him to open his account in the 17th over of the game. All five bowlers used by England got on the scoreboard with [Jack Leach](https://www.mirror.co.uk/all-about/jack-leach) taking 4-140 from his 31 overs to become the leading wicket taker in the world for the year so far. “It was the best day of my life,” he said with 2-89 to his name. “I believe in myself and I’ve been given the opportunity so I just tried my best.

Rehan Ahmed becomes England's youngest-ever Test Cricketer to debut in the final match between Pakistan and England. Rehan Ahmed will be 18 years and 126 ...

Rehan Ahmed’s father Naeem Ahmed was a former cricketer who was born in Pakistan. Rehan Ahmed becomes England’s youngest-ever Test Cricketer to debut in the final match between Pakistan and England. Rehan Ahmed was born on 13th August 2004.

Rehan Ahmed claimed his first Test wicket for England in a lively afternoon session that saw Pakistan reach the interval at 204 for five.

The pair took Pakistan to the cusp of lunch before Azhar gloved a leg-side delivery from Robinson through to Ben Foakes to leave the score at 117 for three. Then Agha Salman would run-out his captain Babar for 78 after a fantastic one-handed pick up from Foakes where in one motion he claimed Brook’s throw on the bounce and then removed the bails. First Stokes took a skier to dismiss Nauman Ali for a brisk 20, before Salman was comprehensively stumped and No11 Abrar Ahmed clean bowled as Pakistan finished on 304 all out. The ball looked to be falling painfully out of the reach of fielder Harry Brook, but stationed at short leg he dived forward one-handed and plucked the ball off the turf before all 10 of the England team swarmed Ahmed in celebration. Not long after, Leach would be in the thick of the action again. His first five overs went for 35 runs as Azhar Ali and Babar Azam punished any waverings of length from the teenager.

Ahmed was awarded his Test cap by Nasser Hussain at the third and final Test match of England's series in Pakistan before receiving a warm hug from his father, ...

Rehan Ahmed is currently 18 years and 126 days old, which makes him the youngest ever cricketer to play a Test match for England.

He scored 0 and 16 runs in his debut game and failed to pick a single wicket to his name. Rehan made his First-Class debut in May 2022. In his debut match against Yorkshire, Rehan scored an unbeaten 7 runs but failed to pick even a single wicket with the ball. Rehan went on to make his List A debut for Leicestershire in July 2021. Rehan Ahmed has become the youngest player to represent England in Test cricket. He was part of the Nottinghamshire youth setup before he joined Leicestershire in 2017.

Rehan Ahmed's father was all smiles in the stands after the teenager scalped his maiden Test wicket on day 1 of the 3rd Test match against Pakistan.

Rehan was finally named in the playing XI for the 3rd Test and received his maiden Test cap on Saturday morning (December 17). The right-arm leg-spinner has been hogging the limelight since his U-19 days and was a surprise selection in the Test squad for the Pakistan tour. Rehan Ahmed's father was all smiles in the stands after the teenager scalped his maiden Test wicket on day 1 of the 3rd Test match against Pakistan.

England bowled out Pakistan for 304 on day one of the third Test, 18-year-old debutant Rehan Ahmed taking two wickets, but the visitors lost opener Zak ...

Azhar, playing his final Test before retirement, offered a near perfect replay of Shakeel’s demise last week here when fiddling to the wicketkeeper on 45. Instead, rather gallingly for Babar and his head coach, Saqlain Mushtaq, a couple of repeats came before lunch. And certainly the removal of Zak Crawley, lbw fifth ball to a fine slider from Abrar Ahmed, had Pakistan bouncing before the close. The hosts had already lost Babar, needlessly run out for 78, and seen Mohammad Rizwan’s underwhelming series roll on when he charged Joe Root, met a full toss and stuck it down Stokes’s throat at midwicket. Among them was a pair of wickets for young Rehan Ahmed to cherish. And it ended with his teammates abuzz at his success, England’s youngest men’s Test cricketer – a leg-spinner whose career has risen this year like one of the kites overhead in Karachi – claiming figures of two for 89 from 22 overs on debut.

Rehan Ahmed takes important wickets as England bowl out Pakistan for 304 on the first day of the final Test in Karachi.

Nauman swiped to mid-off, the dancing Salman was stumped by a distance and last man Abrar was bowled by one that turned sharply. Harry Brook swooped and wicketkeeper Ben Foakes did well to gather a low throw, tumble and break the stumps in one movement. Stokesy said to me I don't care about runs, I care about wickets, and in the second spell I got some wickets." Eventually, Faheem played all around a googly delivered from round the wicket and was palpably lbw. All of the pre-match talk was about how much the pitch might turn. Ahmed, with his father by his side, was presented with his England cap by former captain Nasser Hussain to break a record held by Brian Close since 1949.

Rehan Ahmed becomes Englands youngest mens Test cricketer of all time (18 years, 126 days) and takes two wickets on debut as tourists dismiss Pakistan for ...

"I think I rushed a little bit in my first spell, but it came out better than I expected. Abrar soon had ball in hand, banishing Crawley for a five-ball duck and then seeing a review for for Ben Duckett (4no) leg before on the sweep come to nothing with the delivery having pitched outside leg stump. Ashraf, Nauman Ali (20), Salman, and Abrar (4) also fell to turn in the third session, with the final three on that list out to Leach - Nauman skying to Stokes down the ground having put on 48 with Salman for the eighth wicket before Leach found prodigious turn to have Salman stumped and castle Abrar off stump. The previous two wickets had fallen to spin in the afternoon - Ahmed banishing Shakeel in what was the moment of the day before Mohammad Rizwan (19) had a moment to forget as he cue-ended a filthy full toss from Joe Root to Stokes. Azhar Ali (45) and Babar rebuilt during a third-wicket stand of 71, with Azhar - who announced on Friday that his 97th Test for Pakistan would also be his last - shaking off a nasty blow to the arm from a fierce Wood delivery to move five runs shy of what would have been his 36th Test half-century. Masood - who had come into the side in place of the injured Imam-ul-Haq (hamstring) - took a liking to Leach, using his feet and striking the spinner for four of his five boundaries, but then top-edged to Leach at deep fine leg after Wood's banged-in ball did not get up as high as he expected.

Day 1 of 5: Pakistan 304 (Babar Azam 78, Agha Salman 56, Azhar Ali 45; J Leach 4-140, Rehan Ahmed 2-89) lead England 7-1 by 297 runs. Rehan Ahmed showed why ...

As the sun began to set in Karachi, England claimed the remaining three wickets in quick succession, with Jack Leach finishing the day with four for 140 from 31 overs as Pakistan slid from 162 for four to 304 all out. The tourists had been without a wrist spinner for the series after Liam Livingstone sustained a knee injury in the first Test match at Rawalpindi, but Ahmed finished the day with two wickets for 89 runs across three spells as he became. England started their innings as the sun began to set in the City of Lights and were seven for one at the close of play, with Zak Crawley out for a duck.

The teenager had varied his length a bit too much in the first session of play, and went into lunch having bowled five wickets for 37 runs, but was markedly ...

The tourists lead the three-Test series 2-0.

[Babar Azam](/topic/babar-azam) was left unbeaten on 30 at the interval, with his side 117 for three. [Rehan Ahmed](/topic/rehan-ahmed) was thrown straight into the action on the morning of his Test debut as [England](/topic/england) had to work hard to take wickets with [Pakistan](/topic/pakistan) reaching 117 for three at lunch on day one at Karachi. The batter was already most of the way through the shot which was top-edged into the deep straight to Leach.

Zak Crawley was out for a duck as the tourists started their innings late on day one of the third Test.

As the sun began to set in Karachi, England claimed the remaining three wickets in quick succession, with Jack Leach finishing the day with four for 140 from 31 overs as Pakistan slid from 162 for four to 304 all out. The tourists had been without a wrist spinner for the series after Liam Livingstone sustained a knee injury in the first Test match at Rawalpindi, but Ahmed finished the day with two wickets for 89 runs across three spells. England started their innings as the sun began to set in the City of Lights and were seven for one at the close of play, with Zak Crawley out for a duck.

LAWRENCE BOOTH IN KARACHI: Not since the 19th century have England handed a Test cap to a player with fewer than three first-class appearances on his CV.

But I'd love to work with Saqqy and try to get better.' 'He's just 18 years old and his first ball is a wrong'un,' said Saqlain. It's the best day of my life. I believe in myself, and I couldn't ask for more.' First he used the delivery to set Shakeel up, before dismissing him with a leg-break next ball. 'I rushed a little bit in that first spell, but Stokesy didn't care about runs – he just wanted wickets.

Sky Sports Cricket's Nasser Hussain and Michael Atherton praised England debutant Rehan Ahmed after he took two wickets on his Test debut.

He brought him back again and when he managed to find his length, a short leg was there. Butcher added: "Even though in the first session he went for seven (runs an over), Ben didn't hide him away in the field. I had to get out of my seat, I was so happy." Temperament is the big thing, and he looks temperamentally sound." "He knows his spinner will eventually get it right. "I thought it was different from Stokes in the captaincy we have seen. "What he will have to work on, as he gets older and better, is to get that leg spinner going. "At lunch, I would have sat down with him and said get the batters playing on the front foot. "We can all imagine what he was feeling at the end of his mark, but he quickly settled and got better through the day. He has a very natural googly. Ahmed regularly beat the edge with his googly. The bowling deserves a lot of credit.

Rookie grows into his first day of Test cricket, with help from a supportive captain and dressing-room.

By the end of the day, with Ahmed having returned maiden Test innings figures of 2 for 89 in 22 overs, his father and brother had their heads down in their phones. [Shane Warne](http://www.espncricinfo.com/player/shane-warne-8166)got excited when he first saw Ahmed in the nets at Lord's as a 13-year-old in 2017, when he dismissed Joe Root (lbw) and his current captain, Stokes (stumped). Then again, the whole point of legspin - and the whole point of being young in a sport that no-one ever truly masters - is about being carried away by these moments, whether they happen to you or in front of you. And yet the compulsion to write a scale-tilting "but" here is just too strong. [Saqlain Mushtaq](http://www.espncricinfo.com/player/saqlain-mushtaq-42628)was bursting with reflected pride, given that this debut had come in the birth country of Ahmed's parents. And once that seminal five-over burst had come to an end - 1 for 19 - a change of ends back to his original starting point brought about the real spell of note. [stellar Under-19 World Cup](https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/under-19-world-cup-2022-final-eng-vs-ind-rehan-ahmed-is-on-the-move-and-has-india-in-his-sights-1299838), [a first-class debut](https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/county-championship-division-two-2022-1310355/worcestershire-vs-leicestershire-1297721/full-scorecard), a [stint in the men's Hundred](https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/the-hundred-draft-2022-how-the-men-squads-stack-up-1309300)and now a Test cap have all come in such quick succession that he has been conditioned to always look ahead. Across 12 more overs - two before tea - he bedded in like this was all just a manifestation of those childhood moments to himself, when he had little but his own ambition and imagination to riff on. He admitted he had not been able to eat or sleep on the night before his debut, as he wandered around the team's Movenpick Hotel twirling a ball in his hand. Ahmed's emergence with time to spare before the second session, however, was as much due to anxiety as it was of someone keen to continue onto the next step. On hand were a slip and a bat pad, though neither was especially in the game in his maiden spell: his five wicketless overs went for 37 runs, through him either being too short or too full. With senior spinner [Jack Leach](http://www.espncricinfo.com/player/jack-leach-455524)for company, he turned his arm over a few times, bouncing on the spot between deliveries into a mitt on the full.

Spinner Rehan Ahmed enjoyed a memorable start to his international career as he became Englands youngest mens Test player aged 18 years and 126 days; ...

I know I got hit for boundaries, but Stokesy was like 'I don't care about the runs, just get me wicket'," Ahmed said. "It was a big day. He backed us all the way; late nights, early mornings - he was always there.

The 18-year-old took two wickets as the tourists bowled out Pakistan for 304 on the first day of the third Test.

He looks a really good prospect for the England team in the future.” Pakistan coach Saqlain Mushtaq, who played 49 Tests as an off-spinner, was full of praise for Ahmed, saying: “I really like his control and the most important thing is his confidence. Googly then leg spinner and it worked.”

Teenage leg-spinner Rehan Ahmed has earned plaudits from Stuart Broad and Michael Atherton after taking two wickets for England on his Test debut against ...

"That's a consequence of his action...and it's very easy for him to bowl the googly. Temperament is the big thing...and he looks temperamentally sound." As far as the cricket goes, he's obviously got a very natural googly. "It looks like his googly turns a little bit more than his leg-spinner which people will begin to learn the further he goes in his career. [Michael Atherton](https://www.mirror.co.uk/all-about/mike-atherton) was also hugely impressed with the youngster, praising both his attitude and temperament. "He was handled well and came back well.

Rehan Ahmed showed why he had been hailed by Ben Stokes and Brendon McCullum throughout Englands series in Pakistan with two wickets on his Test debut as ...

In the morning, the tourists had turned immediately to spin, with Leach becoming the first England spinner to open the bowling in the first innings of a match since 1921, when Jack White did so against Australia at Headingley. As the sun began to set in Karachi, England claimed the remaining three wickets in quick succession, with Jack Leach finishing the day with four for 140 from 31 overs as Pakistan slid from 162 for four to 304 all out. England started their innings as the sun began to set in the City of Lights and were 7-1 at the close of play, with opener Zak Crawley out for a duck in the first over.

England debutant Rehan Ahmed explains how his maiden Test wicket of Saud Shakeel was born out of bowling at his brother when they were growing up | The ...

155-9 (20ov) "I just came to get better, and they gave me a chance." And so, his maiden Test scalp was effectively devised in the back garden.

The 18-year-old leg-spinning all-rounder claimed two key wickets after becoming England's youngest ever men's Test cricketer.

Saqlain, who claimed 496 international wickets for Pakistan during an eight-year career, said: “I really like his control and the most important thing is his confidence. He is very confident and he has got maturity with such a young age.” On a tour of Pakistan already dripping in history, Ahmed’s debut continued the theme when, aged 18 years and 126 days, he broke Brian Close’s record (18 years and 149 days against New Zealand in 1949) to become