England’s white-ball captain said he wanted his side to ‘keep pushing the limits’ before three Twenty20 matches in four days against India
“What they’re doing has been our style of cricket for quite a while now, so it will be much the same and, if anything, can we take it to new levels?” Buttler said. “That’s what we’ll always be challenging ourselves on. A big part of this team is not to set boundaries and not to have limitations. Are there areas we can keep pushing the limits?”
“In terms of a place to take over from, if I’m not ready to take over now then I’d never be,” he said. “I think I’m in the best place I could ever be to become captain at this moment.” Buttler promises that “guys will have opportunities to really stake a claim” but is also clear his priority will be results over experimentation. “I don’t want us to get to a situation where we devalue games and think that they’re all just practice matches, like: ‘Let’s do this because it might happen in six months’ time,’” Buttler said. Jason Roy, Jos Buttler, Dawid Malan, Liam Livinstone, Moeen Ali, Phil Salt, Sam Curran, Chris Jordan, Tymal Mills, Reece Topley, Matt Parkinson.
Surprisingly one of the areas in which Buttler is not suggesting significant change is their one obvious weakness: death bowling. While accepting it is an issue, his belief is that it is overestimated. “It is a pretty thankless task at the moment in white-ball cricket, it proves incredibly difficult,” he said.
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