England offie Shoaib Bashir was on Monday ruled out of the remainder of the England vs India Test series due to a finger fracture which he sustained during the third match at Lord’s which his side won to take a 2-1 lead. The 21-year-old is scheduled to go for surgery later this week, the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) said.
“England men’s spinner Shoaib Bashir has sustained a fracture to his left finger and has been ruled out of the remainder of the Rothesay Test series against India. He is scheduled to undergo surgery later this week. England will name their squad for the fourth Test at Emirates Old Trafford in the next couple of days,” ECB said.
Bashir sustained injury to his little finger of his left-hand on the third day of the Lord’s Test while bowling to Ravindra Jadeja, who hit a powerful low drive straight back to the bowler. He bowled just 5.5 overs in India’s second innings, but had the honour of ending the visiting side’s run chase of 193, scalping the wicket of last batter Mohammed Siraj as England notched a memorable 22-run win.
On Monday, veteran all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja and the usually fragile tail brought India back from the brink but fell heartbreakingly short in the face of England captain Ben Stokes’ resolve, going down by 22 runs.
Down and out at 112 for eight, Jadeja (61 not out off 181) took the game deep with the help of Jasprit Bumrah (5 off 54) and Siraj (4 off 30) before agonisingly ending up on the wrong side of the result in a game for the ages. The visitors trail 1-2 in the five-match series.
India were chasing a seemingly gettable 193 but folded for 170 after their front-line batters endured a rare collective failure, engineered by the pace trio of Jofra Archer (3/55), player of the match Stokes (3/48) and Brydon Carse (2/30).
Siraj showed plenty of fight, as he always does, but his forward defence off Bashir rolled back to his stumps, bringing him down on his knees in despair and a thrilling finish to the match.
