Shoaib Bashir ‘still learning’ and shining with England after important support

England’s Shoaib Bashir is learning (Andrew Cornaga/AP). - (AP)

Shoaib Bashir is still “learning on the job” as a Test spinner but believes the support of Ben Stokes is helping unlock his full potential.

Bashir was an unlikely leading man on day one of England’s series opener in New Zealand, claiming four wickets for 69 runs on a Christchurch pitch that is so inhospitable to slow bowlers that the home side went in without a frontline spinner.