Shoaib Bashir or Jack Leach? Maybe Rehan Ahmed? Or even a candidate from outside the England set-up – Liam Dawson, at the end of his career, or Archie Vaughan, at the start of his? Such are England’s ...

Former Australia captain Ricky Ponting said he would "definitely" pick spinner Shoaib Bashir for the first Ashes Test in Perth if he were in England's camp. England have included Bashir, 22, in a ...