Overview

• Australian veteran Nathan Lyon told a Cricket Australia event that Jack Leach remains England’s best spinner and described Bashir as having “been OK”
• Bashir, speaking to the PA news agency, said he doesn’t focus on outside opinions and lauded Lyon’s overspin and revs
• The England off-spinner is currently recuperating from surgery on the little finger of his left hand sustained in late July
• Bashir says he has sharpened his skills on Australian bounce through work with Graeme Swann and a prior England Lions tour
• Selectors must decide between the young pacier Bashir and experienced Jack Leach for the Ashes opener in Perth on November 21 based on fitness and form