{"id":1965,"date":"2021-01-29T22:21:12","date_gmt":"2021-01-29T16:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=89370"},"modified":"2021-01-29T22:21:12","modified_gmt":"2021-01-29T16:51:12","slug":"bairstow-will-join-england-after-1st-test-thorpe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/bairstow-will-join-england-after-1st-test-thorpe\/","title":{"rendered":"Bairstow will join England after 1st Test: Thorpe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">England wicketkeeper-batsman Jonny Bairstow will return to their Test squad after the first Test. He will be available for the second Test at Chepauk. Bairstow was initially rested for the first two Tests against India that will start on February 13.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">England batting coach Graham Thorpe said on Friday in a virtual interaction: \u201cHe is coming after the first Test into the squad.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bairstow was scheduled to join the team after the second Test. But considering the situation, he will arrive early.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">England had rested Jonny Bairstow along with all-rounder Sam-Curran and pacer Mark Wood. But resting the 31-year-old keeper was criticised by former England cricketers who considered Bairstow as one of the best spin players in England currently.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">However, head coach Chris Silverwood backed the decision and said, \u201cI\u2019m perfectly happy with the system we\u2019re using at the moment. I stand by it\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cWe\u2019ve got to look after our people. We\u2019re spending a lot of time locked in hotel rooms inside biosecure bubbles and it\u2019s not easy,\u201d he told.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bairstow marked his Test comeback through the series in Sri Lanka where he was involved in two of some big partnerships.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>England wicketkeeper-batsman Jonny Bairstow will return to their Test squad after the first Test. He will be available for the\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133,"featured_media":25064,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[176],"class_list":["post-1965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-jonny-bairstow"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1965","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\/133"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}