Bashir managed to take the scalp of Prabath Jayasuriya by castling him while giving away 21 runs. \u201cShoaib Bashir only sent down seven overs on Friday, but I was really impressed with the quality of his bowling. Then, when he got Prabath Jayasuriya on strike, he followed three deliveries at 53-54 miles per hour with one held back and flighted beautifully.\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n
\u201cJayasuriya came running down and thought he'd got to the pitch of the ball, only to be half a yard short. It spun and went through the gate. It\u2019s early doors and he needs to work on his control of line to the right handers, but there have been good signs that in Australia next year, Bashir will be hard to get down the pitch to,\u201d wrote Hussain in his column for Daily Mail.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
He also described how Bashir troubled Kamindu Mendis, who eventually top-scored for Sri Lanka with 74 off 120 balls. \u201cPeople will say that he was bowling at Sri Lanka\u2019s tail, but he wasn\u2019t. He was bowling at Kamindu Mendis, a player who grew up playing against lots of spin and someone with multiple hundreds in Test cricket in Bangladesh.\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n
\u201cBashir, 20, has been picked to try and replicate Australia\u2019s world class off-spinner Nathan Lyon ahead of next year\u2019s Ashes and this was the most drop I have seen him get on the ball in his short career. It shows he is a quick learner.\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n
\u201cHe was getting that drop because of the amount of over spin he was producing and it meant that even a set batter like Mendis struggled to get down the pitch to him. Mendis was reaching for deliveries early on, and there were a couple of times that he played the forward defence and the ball hit the splice of the bat - which is exactly what Lyon does to opponents,\" the veteran cricketer added.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Hussain reckons Bashir will get control on his lines and play the role for England similar to what Lyon has done for more than a decade with the Australian Test team. \u201cIt\u2019s early doors and he needs to work on his control of line to the right handers, but there have been good signs that in Australia next year, Bashir will be hard to get down the pitch to.\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n
\u201cHe was getting that drop because of the amount of over spin he was producing and it meant that even a set batter like Mendis struggled to get down the pitch to him. Mendis was reaching for deliveries early on, and there were a couple of times that he played the forward defence and the ball hit the splice of the bat - which is exactly what Lyon does to opponents,\" the veteran cricketer added.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
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