THE SHO STOPPER

Bashir is the star turn after his visa woes & skipper Rohit is his first victim

-  RORY DOLLARD

SHOAIB BASHIR put his visa issues behind him as he soaked up the "incredible feeling" of dismissing India captain Rohit Sharma on his first day as a Test cricketer.

Bashir was left high and dry in Abu Dhabi after hold-ups with his application forced him to miss the start of the series in Hyderabad.

But the 20-year-old was in the thick of the action as India reached 336-6 in capping a rise to Visakhapatnam, remarkable prominence by snaring his first international wickets.

It took him less than four overs to open his account when he had Sharma, a master of these conditions who boasts eight centuries and an average of 63 on home soil, caught at leg slip with an off-break.