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harsh on bashir, he's a 6'4 20 year old bowling spin in england. can't imagine a much more difficult scenario.
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Look he will - you’d assume - get better but he’s been picked on not even potential from what I’ve watched, it’s just the fact that he actually bowls spin.
We played him horribly though to be fair he generally put the ball on a decent enough spot he just didn’t do much with it
how has he not been picked on potential?
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If you’re averaging 50 at first class level you’re getting picked because you are young, not because you have shown something.
He’s taken 16 wickets in 11 matches away from test cricket without ever taking more than three wickets in an innings.
‘Potential’ to me is a combination of a few things: you are going to get better and develop (so yes, he’s got those things in his favour: tick) and you have already shown a few times that you have ‘a bit.’
I would think that, say, a 20 year old with an ordinary average but who’s taken a five wicket haul or two, or hit a couple of centuries, is that sort of player.
When Bashir was picked, I can’t see what it was based on other than ‘he bowls spin, and he’s young so he might develop so I guess it’s better than picking someone older’
As I said he’s done ok but I don’t think it’s been out of any especially brilliant bowling at this point but he will get better regardless
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