Ind vs Eng: Adil Rashid gets Hajj to leave, to miss the India series. Rashid will skip six games against India from July 7 to 17.

LONDON: English player Adil Rashid has been permitted to perform Hajj by the cricket specialists, ESPNcricinfo revealed Thursday.

The spinner will miss England's white-ball series against India and the last option phases of Yorkshire's T20 Blast crusade because of the journey one month from now.

Adil Rashid, a rehearsing Muslim, will travel to Makkah on Saturday and is supposed to return in mid-July, in front of England's white-ball series against South Africa, the distribution detailed.

"I've been needing to do it for a brief period yet I've found it quite troublesome with the timings," Rashid told the site.

"This year, I felt like it was something that I needed to do, and something I needed to do too," he said, adding he addressed the ECB and to Yorkshire about it and they were highly understanding and empowering.

"It's an enormous second: every confidence has its own different thing yet for Islam and being a Muslim, this is perhaps of the greatest one. It's something major for my confidence and for myself. I realize that I expected to do it while I was youthful and solid and sound. This is the sort of thing that I truly dedicated to myself that I would do."

Rashid will miss six games against India from July 7 to 17 and explained that playing against India was not the explanation for this choice. "That didn't exactly occur to me. It was simply: correct, I'm going - the choice was immaterial of cricket, in that sense."

The cricketer likewise credited Eoin Morgan and the England order with making an "extremely steady" climate for himself and his Muslim partners Moeen Ali and Saqib Mahmood.