A file picture of England’s Jos Buttler
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England had suffered a humiliating 69-run loss to Afghanistan within the group stage of the 2023 World Cup in New Delhi.
Embattled England captain Jos Buttler will spend the following few weeks analysing whether or not he’s a “a part of the issue or the answer” earlier than taking a name on his future because the crew’s chief following its Champions Trophy ouster as a consequence of a surprising loss to Afghanistan.
England misplaced by eight runs in a chase of 326 as Afghanistan rode on the mixed brilliance of Ibrahim Zadran (177) and Azamatullah Omarzai (41 and 5/58) to report a memorable win Lahore on Wednesday (February 26, 2025).
“I feel I’ve set to work out personally am I a part of the issue or am I a part of the answer?” an “clearly gutted” Buttler mentioned within the post-match press convention when a number of questions had been thrown at him on his future as captain.
This was the third successive failed ICC match marketing campaign by England underneath Buttler after the 2023 World Cup in India and the 2024 T20 World Cup within the Americas.
England had suffered a humiliating 69-run loss to Afghanistan within the group stage of the 2023 World Cup in New Delhi.
“I feel clearly the outcomes aren’t the place they should be and I personally want to contemplate all prospects. And like I mentioned, clearly, we have to get us as a crew again to the place England cricket must be within the white ball codecs,” Buttler conceded.
The batter, whose type hasn’t been significantly encouraging as effectively, has dominated out any knee-jerk reactions to the debacle. The crew nonetheless has a recreation to play, towards South Africa, on Saturday (March 1, 2025).
“I am not going to make any emotional selections proper right here, proper now. You are most likely not the primary folks I might talk about that with. And take somewhat little bit of time to only work out personally what I feel is true,” Buttler mentioned.
However he acknowledged that it hasn’t been straightforward being in control of an outfit that’s struggling to log wins for some time. The Champions Trophy disappointment was preceded by a hammering by the hands of India in a limited-overs’ sequence.
“Outcomes are powerful and so they weigh heavy at occasions. And, after all, you wish to be main a profitable crew and we have not been that for some time now so clearly that brings some tough moments,” he mentioned.
Buttler rued the missed alternatives through the recreation however gave credit score to the Afghans for his or her perseverance. He additionally paid tribute to the prolific Joe Root, who as soon as once more made a mark with a superb 111-ball 120 solely to be let down by his teammates, “…clearly a extra firing, assured crew would have gotten over the road tonight. As I mentioned, we had our probabilities, and it is as much as us as people, as a crew,…to search out methods to get ourselves again the place we should be,” he mentioned.
“Credit score to Ibrahim, performed a extremely improbable innings, however to go for 113 within the final 10 was clearly just a few too many, and that added just a few additional clearly onto the chase.
“…and within the chase Joe Root performed typical Joe Root innings full of sophistication and composure and character and ability and it wanted one in every of us within the prime six to go along with him for longer,” he added.
Printed – February 28, 2025 06:15 am IST
