{"id":1528,"date":"2020-11-24T22:10:52","date_gmt":"2020-11-24T16:40:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=75904"},"modified":"2020-11-24T22:10:52","modified_gmt":"2020-11-24T16:40:52","slug":"eng-vs-sa-2020-england-coach-clarifies-that-ben-stokes-and-jos-butler-will-not-swap-positions-like-they-did-in-ipl-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/eng-vs-sa-2020-england-coach-clarifies-that-ben-stokes-and-jos-butler-will-not-swap-positions-like-they-did-in-ipl-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"ENG vs SA 2020: England coach clarifies that Ben Stokes and Jos Butler will not swap positions like they did in IPL 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>England\u2019s team coach Chris Silverwood has confirmed that Ben Stokes and Jos Butler will not swap positions in the batting line-up like they did during the IPL 2020 season. The Rajasthan Royals (RR) used the all-rounder as the opener and kept the\u00a0<span style=\"text-transform: initial\">wicket-keeper batsman at the middle-order.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Chris Silverwood opined that, both the players have experienced differently in the IPL 2020. He also mentioned that Ben Stokes enjoyed himself in the new position.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s great that those two guys get the experience of doing different things and I don\u2019t think it ever hurts them as players to explore different options, but it doesn\u2019t muddy the waters at all,\u201d said Chris Silverwood to PA news agency.<\/p>\n<p>Ben Stokes is mainly a limited-overs and middle-order batsman. However, Ben was used as an opener for Rajasthan Royals (RR) and smashed 285 runs in eight fixtures. On the other hand, Jos Butler was opened a few innings for the RR team.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-transform: initial\">\u201cI know Ben was keen to do it, he\u2019s always keen to get up the order and give it a go. I wouldn\u2019t say I was surprised, I\u2019d say I was glad to see him do well\u201d Chris Silverwood said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>England\u2019s tour to South Africa will start from Friday in Netherlands.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>England\u2019s coach Chris Silverwood stated that Ben Stokes and Jos Butler will not swap their positions like they did in the IPL 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":24638,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[255,1111,465],"class_list":["post-1528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-ben-stokes","tag-jos-butler","tag-rajasthan-royals"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}