- Jos Buttler was part of the England team that won the 2019 Cricket World Cup
- Captained England in the 2023 World Cup where his team lost six games
- His side was then beaten by India in the semifinals in the T20 World Cup last year.
When Brendon McCullum appeared as the new coach of every format in England before the final test last summer, against Sri Lanka in the Oval, he needed little invitation to talk about Jos Buttler's body language.
“It has been a bit miserable sometimes,” McCullum said, with a smile. “I think it's not naturally as expressive as some.”
During the recent tour of India, it was clear that Buttler had taken criticism on board: he has never seemed to be captured by the camera with a smile on his face.
However, you can not escape the fact that the Champions Trophy, which begins this week in Pakistan and the United Arab Emirates, looks in their evolution as a captain. After his “miserable” comment, McCullum insisted that Buttler was “a good leader.” But there is no doubt that I could do some results to support that.
Not many visiting teams won limited series in India, but England seemed even more out of the rhythm during its 3-0 defeat in the one-day stretch that while they lost the T20s 4-1.
And the 50 -year -old Whipella means that they will enter their first game, against the world champions of Australia in Lahore on Saturday, with a terrible hate record since he beat New Zealand at home in September 2023: only four victories of 15 games of 15 games , sinking them seventh in the ranking, between Sri Lanka and Afghanistan.
Jos Buttler England heated for the ICC champions trophy with an ODI series in India
England lost the first two games for four WICKETS before going down for 142 races in the end
Captain Buttle
Buttler has already chaired two failed World Cup defenses: the title of 50 in India 16 months ago, and the T20 edition in the Caribbean last summer, which cost the chief coach Matthew Mott Mott his work. A Champions trophy burst will add fuel to the argument that Buttler was lucky to not follow it through the output.
Despite averaging only 20 during the terror sequence of 15 games in England, it is still a white ball batter of all time. Only Shahid Aphridi of Pakistan scored more than his 5,114 races at a better attack rate than his 116, and Aphridi averaged only 23 to the 39 of Buttler.
For England, only Eoin Morgan, whose captaincy shoes have proven to be difficult to fill, has reached more than his 170 Odi Sixes. In T20 Internationals, Buttler is more than 1,000 free package races.
And he is a double World Cup winner, the first time he completed the exhaustion of Martin Gupptill in New Zealand who secured England's victory in 2019 in Lord's, the second time he raised the T20 trophy after the victory over Pakistan in Melbourne . As a white ball batter, he is in the pantheon.
But England's white ball teams have long thrown the aura that radiated with Morgan, and Buttler, smile or without a smile, has not yet managed to recover it.
His three opponents in Pakistan-Australia, Afghanistan and South Africa-All hammered in England during the last 50 in the global event, the 2023 World Cup in India. A repetition this time, and the pressure to return to the 34 -year -old buttler to the ranks, and see his career as a specialized batter, will only grow.