Cricket: Afghanistan have taken down England in the Champions Trophy, winning by 8 runs and sending England home.
has sparked a swift and ruthless search for a scapegoat — and the UK papers will tell you there’s only one contender: Jos Buttler .
But the finger remains squarely pointed at Buttler, who became captain after Eoin Morgan retired in 2022, leading the side to a failed 2023 World Cup campaign, and a crushing semi-final loss at the 2024 T20 World Cup.‘No excuses’: England roasted over embarrassing exit as Afghanistan stun Poms in thriller
Three former England captains, Michael Atherton, Nasser Hussain, and Michael Vaughan are now all of the same opinion.Calls are growing for Jos Buttler to step aside.“England do judge themselves on these ICC events, they’ve made that very clear, that because they come along so frequently now, they build towards these tournaments.
Hussain agreed with Atherton, saying that while he likes Buttler as a person, he doesn’t believe that captaincy has ever sit truly comfortably with him. “Here we are now, with England embarrassed at another global event, having regularly protested that the revival is just round the corner. Vaughan lamented England’s inability to sustain Test success and white ball success simultaneously — something which their biggest rivals, Australia and India, have done more consistently.“At no stage in our history have we been good at both for any meaningful period of time,” he wrote. “That is not good enough and is down to management.
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