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    "editor1": "<p><strong>London, July 10 (CRICKETNMORE):<\/strong> Former England cricket skipper Nasser Hussain said he would have picked in-form wicketkeeper-batsman Jos Buttler over Gary Ballance for England&#39;s first Test against Pakistan at Lord&#39;s starting on Thursday.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Ballance replaces Nick Compton from the squad that beat Sri Lanka 2-0 in the Test series earlier this summer, while Toby Roland-Jones comes in for the injured veteran seamer James Anderson.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>&quot;It&#39;s a bit of a surprise selection. Not many people were talking about Ballance this summer and Roland-Jones. To be honest, I haven&#39;t seen a lot of red-ball cricket, so it is difficult to judge,&quot; Hussain was quoted as saying by Sky Sports on Sunday.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Jos Buttler smashed 73 off 49 balls opening the batting for England in the recent T20I against Sri Lanka.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>&quot;It&#39;s in no way a dreadful selection, but I would have gone differently. I have said that all along. Buttler is too good a talent to have just carrying the drinks or out playing in county cricket.&quot;<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>&quot;Buttler hasn&#39;t played a lot of red-ball cricket since he was left out of the Test team, and the selectors obviously wanted to go for someone who has. Jos now needs to score a stack of runs for Lancashire, although it looks like he might be injured for a while.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>&quot;The selectors are showing a bit of continuity by picking Ballance. He was the reserve batsman in the squad in South Africa, plus he scored a very timely hundred for Yorkshire against a decent Middlesex bowling attack last week.&quot;<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Batsman Scott Borthwick was in sensational form for Durham earlier in the season but misses out on the England squad.<\/p>\r\n",
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