{"id":146676,"date":"2025-09-19T04:02:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T04:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/146676\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T04:02:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T04:02:09","slug":"ashes-2025-26-rehan-ahmed-in-contention-for-england-squad-for-winter-series-against-australia-cricket-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/146676\/","title":{"rendered":"Ashes 2025\/26: Rehan Ahmed in contention for England squad for winter series against Australia | Cricket News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rehan Ahmed is in contention to be included in England’s squad for this winter’s Ashes series in Australia.<\/p>\n

It is understood Ahmed is in the frame ahead of Liam Dawson, who played the fourth Test of the drawn series with India after Shoaib Bashir broke his finger.<\/p>\n

The all-rounder has had an impressive summer with bat and ball for his county Leicestershire, who were this week confirmed as champions of Division Two of the County Championship.<\/p>\n

Rehman has also featured for England in white-ball matches this summer, including in the T20I win on Wednesday against Ireland<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ahmed has not played for the Test side since the fifth Test against Pakistan in October 2024, with England favouring Tom Hartley, Bashir and most-recently Dawson as their front-line spin option.<\/p>\n

England coach Brendon McCullum is confident Ben Stokes and Mark Wood will be clear of injury for the series in what would represent a substantial boost to the team’s bowling department.<\/p>\n

England are looking to regain The Ashes for the first time in 10 years and, at the same time, address their dismal record in Australia since their successful 2010\/11 tour – having failed to win a single Test in 15 attempts, losing 13.<\/p>\n

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Michael Atherton believes Ahmed is the ‘natural successor’ to Adil Rashid for England in white-ball cricket<\/p>\n

Athers unconvinced on Ahmed’s Test credentials<\/p>\n

Former England captain Michael Atherton believes that while Ahmed should be considered for England duty in limited-overs cricket, he is unconvinced he should be selected for the Test side.<\/p>\n

“He’s had an outstanding season in all formats,” said Atherton. “He’s been superb in the Championship, he’s hit runs more than taken wickets.<\/p>\n

“His role is much more clearly defined in one-day cricket at the moment and I see him very much the successor to Adil Rashid, he’s perfect for white-ball cricket.<\/p>\n

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Ahmed took this great catch for Trent Rockets against London Spirit at Lord’s in The Hundred<\/p>\n

“There’s a bit of chat about him for The Ashes and I think there are better top-order batters and I think there are better red-ball leg-spinners but he’s right there in white-ball cricket.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rehan Ahmed is in contention to be included in England’s squad for this winter’s Ashes series in Australia.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146677,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-146676","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}