{"id":30206,"date":"2025-06-02T17:37:13","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T17:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/shoaib-bashir-england-spinner-open-to-leaving-somerset\/"},"modified":"2025-06-02T17:37:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T17:37:13","slug":"shoaib-bashir-england-spinner-open-to-leaving-somerset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/shoaib-bashir-england-spinner-open-to-leaving-somerset\/","title":{"rendered":"Shoaib Bashir: England spinner open to leaving Somerset"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Bashir signed a two-year deal with Somerset in 2023, and was then picked for England’s tour of India the following year after playing only six first-class matches.<\/p>\n

Despite a modest domestic record \u2013 Bashir’s average in the County Championship is 84 \u2013 he has thrived for his country under Stokes’ leadership.<\/p>\n

He was man of the match in the one-off Test against Zimbabwe last month with career-best match figures of 9-143, which also included Bashir becoming the youngest England man to reach 50 Test wickets.<\/p>\n

While he has replaced Leach as England’s number one spinner, Somerset have kept faith with the 33-year-old as their first choice.<\/p>\n

Bashir’s route to Somerset’s first XI is further complicated by the emergence of 19-year-old Archie Vaughan, who provides an all-round option with his off-breaks.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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Bashir signed a two-year deal with Somerset in 2023, and was then picked for England’s tour of India the following year after playing only six first-class matches. Despite a modest domestic record \u2013 Bashir’s average in the County Championship is 84 \u2013 he has thrived for his country under Stokes’ leadership. He was man of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30207,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[3205,278,3146,288,3204,7453,4302],"class_list":["post-30206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-england","tag-bashir","tag-england","tag-leaving","tag-open","tag-shoaib","tag-somerset","tag-spinner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30208,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30206\/revisions\/30208"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}