A month after his Hampshire debut, Mason Crane is being tipped for an England call-up.

Crane’s rise has been so impressive that Steve Harmison has called for him to be included in the England squad as the third spinner for this month’s series against Pakistan in the UAE.

No wonder the leg-spinner, unlike many of his peers, was unconcerned by yesterday’s A level results.

The 18 year-old has enjoyed an astonishing first month in Hampshire’s first team since completing courses in PE and Politics at Lancing College in June.

Tonight, Hampshire face another tough examination with a place at Finals Day awaiting the winners of their T20 Blast quarter-final at Worcester.

The wet forecast may mean Crane is left out, as he was when Hampshire last lost a T20 game, against Gloucestershire at Cheltenham last month.

But he has been something of a T20 talisman for Hampshire, whose quarter-final hopes were in the balance before he made his debut against Surrey on July 10.

He has since helped Hampshire win all three T20 games he has played and taken 23 wickets in all competitions.

Crane has ten top-order wickets at 22 apiece from his first two County Championship matches and his white-ball scalps include Kumar Sangakkara, Vikram Solanki, Sam Billings and Sam Northeast.

But there is no doubting his best performance to date.

“It’s been really hectic, surreal month and I’ve enjoyed it all but the highlight was taking 5-35 [against Warwickshire in the Championship last Saturday],” he said.

“The County Championship is a competition I really enjoy playing in . If you want to play Test cricket, which I do, you have to get first-class wickets so to get a five-for in my second game was excellent.

“It was really good to get Jonathan Trott, as he used to be my favourite player when he played for England.”

Crane has risen to every challenge so far.

“The challenge is to improve all the one per centers, but I do think I’ve got better [over the last month],” he said. “Each competition has its own regulations to get used to and I have a slightly different role in each of them.

“But I enjoy all of them and when you’re on a roll it’s easier to transfer from one to the other.”

Crane could add another big scalp to his CV tonight, in England’s Moeen Ali. “It doesn’t matter who they are, they still get out,” he said. “Hopefully we can get him early.”