Shoaib: I'll be fit to give Ashes.a bash

SPINNER HAS FIRST TEST IN PERTH FIRMLY IN HIS SIGHTS

- By David Charlesworth

SHOAIB BASHIR is confident he will be ready for the Ashes.

SHOAIB BASHIR is confident he will be ready for the Ashes.

Bashir injured the little finger on his non-bowling hand while attempting to take a catch off his own bowling in England’s third Test against India at Lord’s on July 12.

And the off-spinner needed an hour-long operation to insert a screw into the broken digit.

His ring and little fingers were in a splint when he appeared at a Chance to Shine event in Nottingham, and England’s first-choice slow bowler is unsure when he will next be available to take the field.