SHO STEALER

Finn: Bashir is ace up our sleeve

- GARY FITZGERALD

SHOAIB BASHIR has the ammunition to help England hit back strongly in the final Test shoot-out in Rawalpindi and stop the series spinning away from them.

The young bowler will have learned valuable and important lessons during the side’s crushing defeat in Multan which allowed Pakistan to level matters.

England’s batsmen will be hard at work trying to find new ways of countering the lethal spin attack which Pakistan are ready to unleash on them again in the third clash starting on Thursday.

But former Test star Steven Finn (above) believes England still have an ace up their sleeves in Bashir who, in harness with the more experienced Jack Leach, has the chance to really come of age on the sub-continent pitches.