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Herodotus was an anthropological Autolycus, a spinner of yarns from Halicarnassus, a Greek colony in Asia Minor.

Former England spinner Monty Panesar has responded to Steve Smith's bizarre swipe at him by saying he made his mistakes "on a quiz show", while the stand-in Australia captain "made his on a cricket field".

The left-arm spinner had correctly answered six questions on Sikhism and its history in the specialist subject round.

England have backed Bashir, 22, as their first-choice spinner for more than a year and in May he became the youngest England bowler to reach 50 wickets in Tests.

Agar was an almost unknown 19-year-old spinner who had just been told by Australia captain Clarke he was in line for a debut in the first Ashes Test of 2013 at Trent Bridge.