Shoaib Bashir is England’s first YouTube cricketer – he won’t be the last

Oonce upon a time, Jason Holder was the young boy in the neighborhood. As a teenager, he played a supporting role in the documentary Fire in Babylonabout the glory days of West Indies cricket, but on Sunday he was the tormented old man trying to hold the centre together against a 20-year-old off-spinner, Shoaib Bashir, as things fell apart for his team.

If Bashir was to make the most of his five-wicket haul at Trent Bridge on Sunday afternoon, he would do well to find two balls to Holder. The first, the second ball of the 27th over of the innings, was a lovely, curling, flighted break that was sharply turned back by Holder’s defensive prod. The second, the final ball of