Jos Buttler replaces wicketkeeper Matt Prior for third Test

Jos Buttler has replaced wicketkeeper Matt Prior in the England squad for the third Test against India.
Prior, 32, stood down from England duty in the aftermath of the second Test defeat at Lord's because of injury.
Buttler, 23, will make his Test debut having played 33 one-day matches and 36 Twenty20 games for his country.
Spinner Simon Kerrigan has been dropped from the squad for the third Test, which starts on Sunday, 27 July at Hampshire's Rose Bowl.
Lancashire wicketkeeper Buttler was called up as cover for the first Test at Trent Bridge, but Prior recovered from a thigh injury to play.

No surprise here given that Buttler was on standby for the first test.

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Jos Buttler as a developed LO cricketer :

will fade away in the 5 day format ......

watch the proceedings....Selectors are hara kari !


hara–kiri  noun

1: ritual suicide decreed by a court in lieu of the death penalty .disembowelment practiced by the Japanese samurai

And Bairstow waiting:

Bairstow last 5 tests: 0, 18, 21, 10, 10, 28, 14, 22, 20, 67

Dem could use that 67:

that will be Jos aggregate for the nexx 6 innings/3 Tests 

Jos 6 at at bats: 0, 18, 21, 10, 10, 28,

Trending is a helluva ting 

Buttler averages 33.32 in first-class cricket  !

Buttler  scored the fastest ODI century by an England player, against Sri Lanka in May,

although Cook said at the time he was not ready (click)

with a chance of an incredible victory : he was run out in the final over.  >