England’s white-ball captain Jos Buttler is yet to press the panic button despite his side losing their opening One Day International India By 10 wickets at Kennington Oval on Tuesday.
England faced the infamy of being bundled out for 110 in 25.2 overs, their lowest score against India in ODIs, with pacer Jasprit Bumrah scoring a career-best 6/19 in 7.2 overs. Butler was recently appointed as the white-ball captain of England. Long-serving captain Eoin Morgan made time for his international career, being his side’s highest run-scorer, scoring 30 runs.
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Butler said batting has been his team’s biggest strength, and with the big guns like Ben Stokes and Joe Root returning to the team after the team’s recent victory in the rescheduled fifth Test against India at Edgbaston, the group started That was before it happened. To suppress.
Butler said, ‘If you look at the names of the players out there, they are some of the best players we have. “In the last five or six years, batting has been our biggest strength, so there is definitely no need to panic,” the captain was quoted as saying in the Daily Mail.
“When you’ve had so much success over such a long period of time, it’s always hard to try to keep going and develop it. The pressure and the expectation is always going to be there. That’s the standard we’ve set ourselves for a long time.” And we deserve that expectation. It doesn’t change the fact that we are a good team. Today we were challenged, and we have come very little, but very confident that we can come back strong. “
Although Root and Stokes returned to the ODI squad after playing a grueling Test against India, they were both dismissed for ducks, with Liam Livingstone unable to open his account.
Butler said England will have to focus on getting better early in the innings and not losing wickets. “But we should look at it and think, is there any way we can try to manage it better, try and not lose as many wickets in the beginning? And we have to learn quickly.”
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The ODI series, which started on a disastrous note after England’s 2-1 loss in the T20I series, certainly upset Buttler, who said it was a “tough loss”. Take. There was a bit of a wicket in the beginning, and Bumrah bowled brilliantly, but we didn’t treat him as well as we would have liked.”
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