{"id":220185,"date":"2023-07-12T00:30:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-11T19:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=220185"},"modified":"2023-07-12T00:30:02","modified_gmt":"2023-07-11T19:00:02","slug":"england-keep-faith-in-bairstow-for-4th-ashes-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2023\/07\/12\/england-keep-faith-in-bairstow-for-4th-ashes-test\/","title":{"rendered":"England keep faith in Bairstow for 4th Ashes test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">MANCHESTER, 11 Jul: England moved early to show its faith in Jonny Bairstow on Tuesday by keeping the wicketkeeper for the fourth Ashes test next week at Old Trafford.<br \/>\nBairstow was the only keeper in an unchanged 14-man squad.<br \/>\nEngland won the third test on Sunday at Headingley to stay alive in the series and trail Australia 2-1 with two games to go.<br \/>\nBairstow has played poorly behind the stumps, missing eight chances of varying difficulty in the first three games. He has also fired only once with the bat, making a run-a-ball 78 on the first day of the series. He has a combined 63 runs since then.<br \/>\nThat has led to calls for Ben Foakes to be restored but the selectors resisted the temptation.<br \/>\nBairstow was England\u2019s test player of the year in 2022 then broke his leg and dislocated his ankle in September in a freak accident on a golf course. Foakes took over but coach Brendon McCullum and captain Ben Stokes promised to pick Bairstow when he was ready. His movement, however, still appeared limited.<br \/>\nThe fourth test starts on Wednesday next week. (AP)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANCHESTER, 11 Jul: England moved early to show its faith in Jonny Bairstow on Tuesday by keeping the wicketkeeper for the fourth Ashes test next week at Old Trafford. Bairstow was the only keeper in an unchanged 14-man squad. England won the third test on Sunday at Headingley to stay alive in the series and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-220185","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}