Shoaib Bashir (শোয়েব বশির) is an English cricketer who plays for Somerset and England. He is a right-handed batsman and a right-arm off-break bowler. He made his first-class debut for Somerset against Essex on 11 June 2023. He made his T20 Blast debut for Somerset against Hampshire on 7 June 2023. He made his international test debut against India on 2 February 2024.

From Woking, Surrey, Bashir attended Fullbrook School and Woking College. His uncle (Saj) was a wicket-keeper batsman for Guildford City Cricket Club and encouraged Bashir with his cricket career. Bashir has Pakistani heritage and is a Muslim. His family roots lie in Mirpur, Kashmir and he speaks the region's Pothwari dialect of Punjabi at home while also being conversant in Urdu. He is relatively tall for an off-spinner at 6 ft 4 in (193 cm).

Prior to signing with Somerset in 2022, Bashir played club cricket for Guildford, age-group cricket with Surrey and Middlesex, and Minor Counties cricket for Berkshire. He spent the winter of 2022-2023 playing club cricket in Australia for the Lindfield District Cricket Club. Despite his height, he never tried seam bowling.

In October 2022, Bashir was given a contract for the 2023 season by Somerset after impressing in Somerset Second-XI fixtures in which he took nine wickets at an average of just 14.11 with a best of 5 for 44 against Warwickshire Second XI. He played warm-up games in red ball cricket prior to the start of the County Championship in April 2023, whilst continuing to play Second-XI matches for the county in the start of the 2023 season.

In October 2023, he was called up to the England Lions cricket team for the first time. In his first competitive match for the England Lions, against Afghanistan B, he took six wickets for 42 runs in 15 overs across both innings.

His talent was spotted by England captain Ben Stokes through social media, as one of the videos of Bashir bowling to former England opener Alastair Cook became talk of the town and went viral on social media. It was Somerset Cricket who had uploaded a small video clip of Bashir's first over, who was playing his first-class debut match, where he was seen bowling to Cook, and Somerset Cricket had shared the video on their official Twitter account, which apparently caught the attention of Ben Stokes, who was very active on Twitter. It was Bashir's first-class debut playing against Essex and he bowled two deliveries in his opening over to Alastair Cook which went onto impress Stokes. Stokes then forwarded the video of Bashir's bowling to a WhatsApp group which England head coach Brendon McCullum and ECB managing director Rob Key were part of. Stokes convinced England selectors and roped in Bashir for their five match test series in India which was scheduled to commence in January 2024. The decision to select him as one of the frontline spinners for the tour raised eyebrows of many as it ended up as a surprising choice given Bashir only played six first class matches at that time when he received the callup.