Adil Rashid has insisted that he has “not closed the door on Test cricket” and has been in contact with Brendon McCullum, England’s new coach, about the possibility of returning to red-ball cricket after an absence of three-and-a-half years.
Rashid’s last Test appearance came in Barbados in January 2019 and he has not played a first-class game since then, focusing instead on the ODI and T20 World Cups in 2019 and 2021 and managing a persistent shoulder injury that has previously required painkilling injections.
But McCullum said at his unveiling that he wanted to “have the conversation” with some of England’s white-ball specialists and work out whether they are interested in playing certain Test series, with Rashid likely to be in contention for the Pakistan tour at the end of this year if he declared himself available.
“Brendon’s reached out to me – just a text to check how things are,” Rashid told the Daily Mail. “I’ve not closed the door on Test cricket. I’ve not retired or…