Bairstow proud of century

Jonny Bairstow said he was proud to score a century on his return to the England Team after being ‘castigated’ for being injured.

An ankle injury sustained playing football caused Bairstow to miss the first Test on the tour of Sri Lanka.

He lost his place as wicket-keeper but returned to make 110 batting at number three on day one of the third Test.“there are different things that you go through when you get castigated about being injured, doing X,Y and Z when people don’t actually see what’s gone on.”“it’s all well and good when it’s going well and people have an opinion on how well you’re playing, but it’s the hidden things that they don’t see.”

“You’ve got to deliver when you’re asked to,” added the 29-year-old.“you get left out of a side when you haven’t done too much wrong over the past couple of years, all of a sudden you’re asked to bat in a role that you haven’t done before so you’re learning on the job.”

“You look at the challenges that have been put in front of me as a cricketer.there have been quite a few and I like to think I have come through most of them. It’s been tough.” (BBC)