What to do with Jos Buttler?England’s greatest white-ball batter of all time is having a lousy time right now. His T20 World Cup stats make for harrowing reading.
Butler has registered only 62 runs in seven innings at an average of 8.85. All but 15 of those runs came across scores of 26 and 21 against Nepal and West Indies respectively to start the tournament.
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Since then, Buttler’s best effort is an incredibly scratchy 14-ball seven versus Sri Lanka. Around that he has been dismissed for three, three, two and, most recently, nought.His two-ball duck against New Zealand, which came after he walked down the pitch to Lockie Ferguson and tamely poked behind, was tough to watch but not surprising.
Buttler seems a man at war with himself more than opposition bowlers. England may now have a decision to make.
Jos Buttler at 2026 T20 World Cup
Innings: 5
Runs: 62
Average: 8.85
Highest score: 26
Balls faced: 58
Strike-rate: 106.89
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Jos Buttler’s scores during his T20 World Cup campaign so far
Could Buttler be dropped?Dropping Buttler does not seem likely, although they do have the option of replacing him with Ben Duckett, the spare out-and-out batter in their 15-strong squad.
The issue there, though, is Duckett has not batted since bagging a golden duck in the final T20 of a bilateral series against Sri Lanka on February 3 – and has not batted with any great success, bar an ODI 62 against Sri Lanka on January 22, since last summer.He endured…
2026-02-28 07:00:00
