Jonny Bairstow, the son of the former England wicketkeeper David Bairstow, followed his dad's footsteps and played as a wicketkeeper-batsman for the national team. He remains to be England's middle order. Bairstow remains to be England's strength in middle-order in Tests, while he opens innings in the shorter formats. Bairstow's journey to the England national team wasn't a cakewalk as he had to vie for a spot with Jos Buttler, who proved his ability with the gloves and willow as well. However, prolific run-making for Yorkshire made England's selectors picked up Bairstow, who never actually let them down. He played his first ODI against India at Cardiff on September 16, 2011, following which he made his T20I debut on September 23 against West Indies at The Oval. The Yorkshire-born right-handed batsman made his Test debut in May 2012, facing West Indies at Lord's.
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Opening for the first time in 28 matches Bairstow broke the back of a 161-run target, which owed much to Rashid's miserly return of 1-15.
Bairstow scored 110 off 186 balls, with nine fours and a six, in his first game since twisting his ankle while playing football almost a month ago during the ODI series against the Sri Lankans.
Ben Foakes will continue with the gloves in the 2nd Test as there seems to be no space for Jonny Bairstow after the former notched his maiden ton on his debut.
The former Sri Lanka skipper is retiring from all forms of cricket in Galle after this first test of three.
Bairstow fractured a bone in the middle finger of his left-hand midway through the third Test in Nottingham, which India won to reduce the deficit in the five-match series to 2-1.
Bairstow injured his finger while keeping the wickets in India's second innings and after that Jos Buttler kept the wickets.
Jos Buttler took over the wicket-keeping responsibilities after Bairstow suffered the injury.
His captain Joe Root had said after the second Test win at Lord's that a 5-0 result would be a dream.
Bairstow, who is Rashid's team-mate in Yorkshire, refused to be drawn into the controversy but said the leg-spinner must be excited to have got the England call-up.
After the T20 series defeat and the drubbing in the ODI opener, England registered convincing wins in the next two matches to claim the rubber 2-1.
With the mammoth total today, England surpassed their own highest ODI total of 444/3 that they scored against Pakistan at the same venue on 30 Aug 2016.
Jonny Bairstow and Mark Wood helped mask the deficiencies of an England batting lineup which earlier had been exposed by Tim Southee, who took 5-60.
Bairstow posted his century with eight fours and six sixes and reached 104 from 60 balls as he helped the visitors clinch a nail-biting series 3-2.
Limping and often grimacing in pain, the 34-year old Taylor hit the 19th ODI century of his career, surpassing his highest score of 131 and steered New Zealand to 339/5 with three balls to spare.
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