{"id":41195,"date":"2018-05-15T16:00:07","date_gmt":"2018-05-15T14:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/05\/15\/buttler-and-bess-are-surprises-in-englands-test-squad-as-vince-dropped\/"},"modified":"2018-05-15T16:00:07","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T14:00:07","slug":"buttler-and-bess-are-surprises-in-englands-test-squad-as-vince-dropped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=41195","title":{"rendered":"Buttler and Bess are surprises in England&#039;s Test squad as Vince dropped"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Uncapped Somerset spinner Dom Bess picked for Pakistan openerNo reprieve for Vince despite double hundred for HampshireJos Buttler and Dom Bess are the standout names in the first squad picked by Ed Smith, England\u2019s new head selector, for the opening Test in the series against Pakistan next week.Buttler, who last played a Test in December 2016, has been selected as a specialist batsman after England\u2019s struggles in recent months while Bess, the uncapped Somerset spinner, benefitted from the untimely broken thumb suffered by his team-mate Jack Leach at Taunton on Tuesday. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2018\/may\/15\/buttler-and-bess-are-surprises-in-england-test-squad-as-vince-dropped\" target=\"_blank\">Buttler and Bess are surprises in England&#039;s Test squad as Vince dropped<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uncapped Somerset spinner Dom Bess picked for Pakistan openerNo reprieve for Vince despite double hundred for HampshireJos Buttler and Dom Bess are the standout names in the first squad picked by Ed Smith, England\u2019s new head selector, for the opening Test in the series against Pakistan next week.Buttler, who last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}