ENGLAND limited-overs captain Eoin Morgan insists Adil Rashid will come up big for the Three Lions if given the chance to shine in the Test arena later this year.

Despite being named in the squad for all five Ashes games and the previous three-match series in the West Indies, Rashid is still waiting for his England Test debut.

The 27-year-old Bradfordian has taken 77 first-class wickets for Yorkshire over the past two seasons and will hope to show the England selectors what he can do in the Royal London One-Day Series with Australia, with the first game getting underway today.

Morgan is also adamant that Rashid will shine with a red ball if the leg-spinner is called into the England team for the three-Test series against Pakistan that starts in the United Arab Emirates next month.

He said: "My experience with Adil is obviously a very fond one. I have never played with him when he has bowled with a red ball but I know he is a very good bowler.

"I know that if he's selected he won't let anybody down. He's showed particularly against New Zealand that he is a different player than he was probably four or five years ago.

"He's a lot more experienced and he has a wise head on his shoulders. He's willing to take new opportunities on and I have every bit of faith in him."

After a disastrous 50-over World Cup, England reinvented their game during the recent Royal London Cup against New Zealand; not only winning the one-day series 3-2 but also delivering a new-found brand of attacking cricket.

In some quarters, pundits believe the feel-good factor created by Morgan and his team against the Kiwis had played a big role in England taking momentum and confidence into the successful Ashes series against Australia.

A number of new faces put their hands up for selection during that campaign as England decided to rest the likes of James Anderson, Stuart Broad and Ian Bell in one-day cricket against the New Zealanders.

In Monday's T20 victory against the Aussies, all-rounders Moeen Ali and Ben Stokes stole the show and Morgan is convinced his team is fast developing into a feared and tough opponent in the one-day game – something Rashid can be a part of.

Morgan said: "As I said before, it's all about us as a side. We have started to turn things around and play an aggressive brand of cricket.

"I think the challenge for us is going to be maintaining that. I think one way of maintaining it, and the only way I want to maintain it, is to keep pushing ourselves to want to improve and to put the opposition under pressure at all times and try and build something.

"When you try to improve something and you already have a good thing, I think holding onto it is the worst thing that you can do.

"The aim is certainly to test their boundaries this series. It is going to be a challenge for us but one we're relishing.

"I think the recent Ashes Test series was exceptional, both as a spectator and a player. I appreciated everything the English test team was about.

"They embodied passion, character and that culminated into a fantastic series win. It makes me very proud to put on the England shirt and we now want to take that on."

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