Haseeb Hamid will be England’s fifth-youngest Test debutant overall © Getty Images
Haseeb Hameed will become the youngest debutant to open for England in Test history when the first Test against India begins in Rajkot on Wednesday.
Hameed, aged 19 years and 297 days by the time the game starts, will become England’s fifth-youngest Test debutant.
Ben Duckett, who opened the batting in Bangladesh and made a sparky half-century in his final innings of the series, will move down to No. 4 to accommodate Hameed. Gary Ballance, who scored just 24 runs in four innings in Bangladesh, had been dropped.
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George Dobell is a senior correspondent at ESPNcricinfo
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