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, capping a remarkable rise to prominence by snaring his first two international wickets ironically in a city locals call VISAKHA.
It took him less than four overs to open his account when he had Sharma (inset), 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.
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