“Rashid’s been a chance for the last two or three Tests that we’ve played”.
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Youngsters Mason Crane and Matt Parkinson, and Somerset’s left-armer Jack Leach have all bowled at England batsmen recently while Zafar Ansari, Stephen Parry, Liam Dawson and Danny Briggs all have a chance of a winter call-up.
“We ve all seen him before probably falling a little bit short, but I thought that spell he got it pretty much spot on, bowled a little bit wider of the off stump into the rough, coming into the stumps and putting the pressure on the batter”.
Bayliss said: “The pitch when we played Australia at the Oval previous year had a bit in it for everyone”.
“Very”, Bayliss said when asked how tempted he was by the thought of Rashid playing.
“We can’t afford to get complacent”, he added.
England travel to India at the end of the year and Bayliss spoke about playing Rashid as an all-rounder and the prospect of playing Ben Stokes as well.
Alastair Cook’s team went 2-1 up with one to play in the Investec series when they fought back from an unpromising position to win by 141 runs at Edgbaston on Sunday.
This was Pakistan’s second heavy defeat in as many matches following their 330-run defeat in the second Test at Old Trafford and again demonstrated how an attack featuring just four frontline bowlers can tire badly in the latter stages.
He stated, “The stats said that with a hundred run deficit you only win three percent of the time”.
“Three spinners in the team will be a possibility if the wickets are anything like when India played South Africa last winter”.
England took the third Test away from Pakistan thanks to a second-innings century stand between Jonny Bairstow (83) and Moeen Ali (86 not out). “I do think we competed exceptionally well, certainly through three-and-a-half days at Edgbaston”.
However, he added: “The good thing is this match is gone”.
His brilliant display of reverse swing ignited England’s famous victory and took him back to the top of the world bowling rankings.
“On a personal level, the runs haven’t come as I would have liked so far having got a couple of good balls and playing a couple of rash shots, so I made a few adjustments to my technique against the left-armers and still feel I’m heading in the right direction”.
‘I think our team at the moment is better equipped to get to No 1 and stay there, ‘ insisted Anderson, 34.
Speaking about the rankings, he said: “It does give the guys confidence that they can win games from a little bit behind, that anything’s possible”.
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“I think he did sort it out himself”, the Australian said. “I thought there were signs in this game that some of the more inexperienced players were starting to show a little bit of maturity”.
