England announced on Thursday that spinner Shoaib Bashir would make his Test debut in the second match of their India tour, after an injury to Jack Leach.
The tourists lead the five-match series 1-0 ahead of the Test starting today in Visakhapatnam and have made two changes with James Anderson coming in as the lone quick.
Bashir made a late entry into India after a visa delay — the latest cricketer of Pakistani descent to have such troubles in India — and missed the opener that England won by 28 runs.
The 20-year-old off-spinner had to fly back to London from Abu Dhabi to finish the required paperwork for his entry to India.
