Shoaib Bashir has become one of the more intriguing subplots of England's car crash of an Ashes tour: present, discussed, but so far untouched. A high release point, yet to actually release a meaningful Ashes delivery. The 22-year-old has again been left out of England's side for the fourth Test in Melbourne starting on 26 December. "If you are ever going to pick a spinner and he is your specialist spinner then he surely had to play at Adelaide [in the third Test] and they didn't play him. "If I was Shoaib Bashir, I would have been absolutely fuming."

Source: BBC December 24, 2025 12:33 UTC