London: England's limited-overs leg-spinner Adil Rashid still has "aspirations" to be a Test-match bowler, according to their national selector Ed Smith.
Rashid is a regular in England's white-ball teams, recently passing 150 wickets in the ODI format, but played the last of his 19 Test matches in the West Indies in January 2019.
"The main thing with Adil is he has made really good strides with his shoulder injury and he has developed really well in recovery," Smith said as quoted by England's official broadcasters.
"His form is really good in white-ball cricket and we've all seen the skill and the mastery which he is displaying in that form.
"There is a jump up required and he is still working on that physical side but in the long term, he still has aspirations to play for England in all forms," he added.
Smith further said that moving forward, they will work closely with the spinner and Yorkshire and see how his shoulder is and if he is ready to play four and five-day cricket moving forward.
"Adil is still coming back from a relatively serious shoulder injury and obviously there is a difference between bowling 10 overs and a hundred overs, or whatever a very heavy workload would be in a two or three-game spell in four-day cricket."
Rashid last featured for England in the three-match ODI series against Ireland and picked up five wickets. He will next be seen in action in the upcoming T20I series against Pakistan beginning August 28.
Meanwhile, England head coach Chris Silverwood has said the team is ready for an early start time for this week's third Test against Pakistan to limit the number of overs lost to bad light and rain.
Only 134.3 overs of play was possible in the drawn second Test at the Ageas Bowl due to poor weather as the match ended in a draw. England lead the three-match series 1-0 as they won the first Test.
"In my opinion it will probably be a good idea," Silverwood said.
"I know there is chat around it so we'll just wait to see what they (the ECB) come back with. But there would be no complaints from us should it happen. We are all here anyway. It's not like any of us are travelling so it wouldn't be very hard to make it happen.
"If there were spectators in, you'd feel for them as well - the sense of frustration that you get when people have paid money to go and watch cricket. If it got out there that we were starting half-an-hour earlier then people would probably make an effort to get in half-an-hour earlier," he said.
