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November 22, 2022 Australia / England

When Jos Buttler says an Australia v England series is irrelevant, is that enough?

4 minute readEngland have just finished playing Australia in a one-day series. The first match came three days after the T20 World Cup final and the man who went on to captain England in the second game called that scheduling “horrible”. With the bare minimum diplomacy, England’s coach said the series was

Five Test wicketkeepers who quite often didn’t actually do any wicketkeeping

6 minute readIf you want to be highly regarded as a wicketkeeper-batter, one of the smartest things you can do is not actually keep wicket in a whole load of Test matches. At what point do you become a wicketkeeper? How frequently do you have to don pads and gloves and chunter

December 20, 2021 Australia / England

Jos Buttler took some fine catches and made a double ball hundred but all we’ll remember is the terrible drop and when he trod on his stumps

2 minute readHistory is not just written by the victors. When it’s a particularly bad defeat, the losers make doubly certain to note down all the really awful moments too. Jos Buttler made a fourth innings double ball hundred in Adelaide. In a series where England have so far displayed almost zero

November 2, 2021 England

England’s two key match-ups for any T20 match: Jos Buttler v Anyone and Adil Rashid v Anyone

2 minute readYou’re no longer allowed to write about T20 without referencing “match-ups” so that is what we’re going to do. Brace yourselves for some IN DEPTH ANALYSIS. In the unlikely event you’re not au fait with the concept of the match-up, it’s a tactical thing where you try and pit a

August 9, 2020 England

Buttler, Bairstow and Foakes – England’s embarrassment of adequacy

3 minute read“I’m putting a team together for a job.” “You son of a bitch. I’m in.” In heist movies, whenever they put a team together, everyone’s always the best of the best; the best there’s ever been. You never make do with members of your heist team. You never settle. You

February 25, 2020 England

What is Jos Buttler’s main skill?

< 1 minute readJos Buttler’s main skill is making sure that when he walks out to bat he accesses being in his zone… apparently. Because those are not our words. Those are the words of Jos Buttler himself. According to Cricinfo, he reckons: “The main skill, and the biggest one that I do

January 28, 2020 England

The Jos Buttler formula and the Ben Stokes toolkit – how ‘trust your defence’ and ‘play your natural game’ aren’t competing philosophies

5 minute readJos Buttler is a Test batsman who talks as if he needs to approach his innings in a certain way. Maybe taking a philosophy into the middle is counterproductive. What’s your natural game? Our natural game is a lot of tea, coffee and reading, a small amount of writing, maybe

May 23, 2019 England