{"id":299318,"date":"2023-12-14T01:24:32","date_gmt":"2023-12-14T01:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportslifetale.com\/?p=299318"},"modified":"2023-12-14T01:24:32","modified_gmt":"2023-12-14T01:24:32","slug":"england-star-rashid-vows-to-look-after-younger-brother-ahmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportslifetale.com\/%d1%81ricket\/england-star-rashid-vows-to-look-after-younger-brother-ahmed\/","title":{"rendered":"England star Rashid vows to look after &apos;younger brother&apos; Ahmed"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1> England star Adil Rashid vows to look after &#8216;younger brother&#8217; Rehan Ahmed on and off the pitch&#8230; with leg-spinner pleased his teenage protege will avoid the pitfalls he faced in his early years<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Adil Rashid and Rehan Ahmed to lead England&#8217;s World Cup defence<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Leg-spinner Rashid has likened his team-mate to a &#8216;younger brother&#8217;<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Ahmed came back from first over that cost 19 runs to claim three wickets<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The sight of Jos Buttler skirting the Kensington Oval boundary at an optional net session earlier this week, in deep conversation with his vice-captain Moeen Ali, held greater significance than previous pre-series chats between the pair.<\/p>\n<p>Moeen is Buttler\u2019s right-hand man &#8211; indeed he has taken the armband in entire series during his captaincy, including last year\u2019s 4-3 win in Pakistan &#8211; so talking tactics is nothing new.<\/p>\n<p>However, this particular conversation represented a changing of the guard as Moeen discovered his close friend Adil Rashid would have a new on-field sidekick in Twenty20 matches as England attempt to tune up for next year\u2019s world title defence back here by defeating West Indies in a five-match series.<\/p>\n<p>Things did not get off to a good start in terms of results, but there was encouragement to be found in Tuesday night\u2019s defeat in individual performance. Specifically that of Rehan Ahmed, who came back from a first over that cost 19 runs to claim three wickets and, bowling in tandem with Rashid, provide the tourists with a glimmer of hope.<\/p>\n<p>Ahmed\u2019s unquestioned ability to dismiss international batters &#8211; he took five in the one-day series defeat here &#8211; has persuaded the England think-tank that their attack going forward should include master-and-apprentice wrist spinners.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/14\/00\/78940125-0-image-m-94_1702513220619.jpg\" height=\"516\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>England star Adil Rashid needs one more victim for 300 wickets in white-ball internationals<\/p>\n<p>And so Rashid, who needs one more victim for 300 in white-ball internationals after returning figures of two for 25 in game one of five, will act as mentor to the Leicestershire teenager on and off the pitch.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I definitely look upon him as a younger brother. He&#8217;s 19. He&#8217;s got his own journey. We&#8217;re completely different bowlers. You know, he&#8217;s got the tricks. He&#8217;s got the ability as well as the confidence, so hopefully he can carry on developing and building his game,\u2019 the 35-year-old Yorkshireman said.<\/p>\n<p>\u2019It&#8217;s always nice to get a young leggie up and coming. We&#8217;re two completely different bowlers as well &#8211; he bowls it a bit quicker, I try and get a bit more flight, a few more variations.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Part of Ahmed\u2019s challenge will be to adapt as opponents around the world get to grips with his style.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Yeah, that&#8217;s what it is. Especially if you start playing a lot more cricket, people see a lot more. Then they might get used to you a bit more,\u2019 said Rashid.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018But that&#8217;s a long way away for him. He&#8217;s just got to keep playing cricket, keep enjoying it and hopefully keep taking wickets and let nature take its course.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Predominantly a bowler who favours his googly, it was heartening to see Ahmed turning his leg-spinner under the floodlights on Tuesday night, including the delivery that dismissed the dangerous Romario Shepherd first ball.<\/p>\n<p>Rashid says there are other balances to his bowling role that England\u2019s youngest player across all formats can incorporate.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Obviously it is to be attacking, but sometimes you can be a bit defensive to get wickets as well,\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018You&#8217;ve got to find the right situation &#8211; when to attack, when to defend and that&#8217;s just not myself and Reh but that&#8217;s just the whole collective unit and hopefully moving forward we can find that.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/14\/00\/78940173-0-image-a-93_1702513213079.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Leg-spinner\u00a0Rashid has likened England team-mate Rehan Ahmed to a &#8216;younger brother&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>\u2018We&#8217;re always talking; just keep it simple, enjoy yourself. The more he plays and the more experience he gets, the better things will get for him.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>One advantage Rashid believes his young protege has is that English cricket now has a greater acceptance of leg-spin as an art form than it did when he began his career 17 years ago, and for that he thanks 2019 World Cup-winning captain Eoin Morgan.<\/p>\n<p>\u2019It&#8217;s definitely got a lot better since Morgs took over in 2015. He changed English cricket with his mentality and how he was with me,\u2019 Rashid explained.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018He really put it in my head about how to bowl and the mindset we&#8217;re looking for. As time&#8217;s gone on, it&#8217;s definitely got a lot better in that sense and people understanding more about leg-spin.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/cricket\/article-12861929\/England-star-Adil-Rashid-vows-look-younger-brother-Rehan-Ahmed-pitch-leg-spinner-pleased-teenage-protege-avoid-pitfalls-faced-early-years.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>England star Adil Rashid vows to look after &#8216;younger brother&#8217; Rehan Ahmed on and off the pitch&#8230; with leg-spinner pleased his teenage protege will avoid the pitfalls he faced in his early years Adil Rashid and Rehan Ahmed to lead England&#8217;s World Cup defence Leg-spinner Rashid has likened his team-mate to a &#8216;younger brother&#8217; Ahmed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":299317,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>England star Rashid vows to look after &amp;apos;younger brother&amp;apos; 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