jos buttler Profile - ICC Profile, Age, Career Info & Stats.
jos buttler is a cricketer(sportsman) from England. His ICC profile, age, career info & stats are given below.
Full Name
Joseph Charles Buttler
Born
September 08, 1990, Taunton, Somerset
Age
33 years old
Batting Style
Right hand Bat
Fielding Position
Wicketkeeper
Playing Role
Wicketkeeper Batter
Education
King's College, Taunton
Batting Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | 57 | 178 | 109 | 96 |
Inn | 100 | 151 | 100 | 95 |
Runs | 2907 | 4961 | 2766 | 3223 |
Avg | 31.95 | 39.69 | 35.01 | 37.92 |
SR | 54.18 | 117.28 | 144.67 | 148.32 |
HS | 152 | 162 | 101 | 124 |
NO | 9 | 26 | 21 | 10 |
100s | 2 | 11 | 1 | 5 |
50s | 18 | 25 | 20 | 19 |
4s | 339 | 403 | 244 | 319 |
6s | 33 | 167 | 117 | 149 |
Bowling Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | 57 | 178 | 109 | 96 |
Inn | - | - | - | - |
Balls | - | - | - | - |
Runs | - | - | - | - |
Wkt | - | - | - | - |
BBI | - | - | - | - |
BBM | - | - | - | - |
Eco | - | - | - | - |
Avg | - | - | - | - |
5W | - | - | - | - |
10W | - | - | - | - |
Teams he has played for:
- England
- Comilla Victorians
- England Development Programme Under-19s
- England Lions
- England Performance Programme
- England Under-19s
- Khulna Royal Bengals
- Lancashire
- Manchester Originals (Men)
- Melbourne Renegades
- Mumbai Cricket Association XI
- Mumbai Indians
- Paarl Royals
- Rajasthan Royals
- Somerset
- Somerset 2nd XI
- Sydney Thunder
Heres what CricBuzz says about him.
His First-Class debut came in the 2009 season when he replaced the injured Justin Langer. Though he failed to seal his spot in the First-Class side, his performances in the other formats earned him a call-up to the Somerset limited overs squad. With regular wicket-keeper-batsman Craig Kieswetter selected to play for England, Buttler got an extended run in the Somerset team and he made the most of it, where he scored 440 runs at an average of 55 in the CB40 series. His terrific form and ability saw him retain his spot in the eleven even after the return of Kieswetter to the Somerset line-up.
Buttler then, was named as Young Wisden School Cricketer of the Year in 2010. In 2011, Buttler was selected in the T20 squad to face India and West Indies at home. He did not get to bat in his first two games and managed only 13 runs when he got his chance in the second match against West Indies.
After a successful tour against Sri Lanka for the England Lions in early 2012, Buttler made his ODI debut against Pakistan in the UAE. He then replaced Kieswetter as England's limited-overs wicket-keeper and hit his first international fifty against New Zealand in a T20I. He also played a crucial role in England's Champions Trophy campaign in 2013. He continued performing well in the ODI series against Australia, both at home and Down Under. In 2013, he made the move to Lancashire and scored his first hundred for the county in June 2014.
Buttler played a key role in England's tour to West Indies, scoring an aggressive 99 in the third ODI, which helped England post a mammoth total and secure a series win. He continued his rich vein of form in the T20s, however, England lost the series. He was also part of England's World T20 campaign in Bangladesh. The wicket-keeper batsman grew in stature ever since he was given a consistent run by the selectors. In the ODI series against Sri Lanka at home, Buttler scored his maiden ODI ton off just 61 balls, it is the fastest hundred by an England batsman. When Matt Prior stepped down from the Test side after the loss to India at Lord's, Buttler was drafted in and handed a debut in Southampton. He scored 85 in his very first Test.
Like England, Buttler had a rather modest time during the 2015 World Cup, his only score of significance coming against Bangladesh - in a match that England shockingly lost and were dumped out of the tournament even before the quarter-final stage. Buttler since became a vital cog in England's One Day plans, consistently scoring runs at a good pace. His runs came at a brisk pace and England suddenly became the team to beat in the shorter formats of the game. Quick with his hands and an ability to find gaps in the field, Buttler's multidimensional batting won him a massive contract with the Mumbai Indians - before the 2016 Indian Premier League auctions. While his run was smooth in the shorter formats of the game, Buttler seemed to have regressed in Tests. He didn't feature in whites for England until the very end of 2016 when his ability to play spin won him a place in the England squad for the Tests in Bangladesh and India. Buttler’s first taste of English captaincy came in the limited overs leg of the Bangladesh tour after several senior members, including regular skipper Eoin Morgan, refused to tour citing security concerns.
Buttler got his chance in whites during the India leg and promptly responded with a fine 76. Post his Test debut, though, Buttler didn’t quite manage to seal a place for himself in red-ball cricket, although he continued to be a part of the squad, playing as a specialist batsman.
After a few sensational years, 2017 was a rather middling one for Buttler. Runs didn't quite flow for him although there were a lot of times when the situation demanded instant hitting. That didn't quite come off consistently for him in the year. In 2018, Buttler’s performance was instrumental in England’s whitewash over Australia in an ODI series. In the 3-match series, Buttler scored two fifties and a dramatic hundred in the third game, coming in at 27-4 to rescue England to a respectable position and take them through to a winning total.
It was Buttler’s wicket that triggered the collapse against Bangladesh in the 2015 World Cup which eventually led to England’s embarrassing exit from the competition. His valiant half-century against the Asian side went in vain as England lost their last four wickets for just 22 runs. Before his 65 against Bangladesh, Buttler also played a cameo - 19-ball 39 - against Sri Lanka, but was another knock that came in a losing knock. The wicket-keeper batsman was under-used and England failed to enter the knockout stages.
When Jos Buttler smashed England’s second fastest ODI century (Buttler holds the record for England’s fastest too) just a few weeks before the 2019 World Cup against Pakistan, former England captain Nasser Hussain put Buttler in the same category as that of Virat Kohli, AB de Villiers, MS Dhoni and Viv Richards. It was by no means an exaggeration. A phenomenal talent, Buttler can single-handedly win matches for his team and he can put even the best bowling attacks under pressure - courtesy his 360 degrees hitting.
Part of England’s historic World Cup winning squad in 2019, Buttler made crucial contributions throughout the competition. Buttler wasn't the enforcer, he was more of a finisher. His numbers weren't great, 312 runs at an average of 34. 67, but his strike-rate, close to 123 per 100 balls, was evident. Buttler's knocks at the end of the innings had bearings towards the end result - a superb World Cup title triumph.
In the first series post the pandemic in 2020, Buttler scored a standout 152 in the final Test against the West Indies but was criticized for his glovework after dropping several chances. In the 2021 World T20, Buttler scored an unbeaten 101 against Sri Lanka to become the first English batter to score a hundred in all formats. Later the next year, in a game against the Netherlands where England scored a historic 498, Buttler contributed an unbeaten 162 off just 70 deliveries. That series turned out to be Eoin Morgan’s last in ODI cricket and Buttler was handed the white-ball reins. Later in 2022, Buttler captained England to victory in the 2022 T20 World Cup in Australia. His contributions with the bat were vital and he was praised for his astute captaincy.
Despite being one of the most explosive batsmen in world cricket, Jos Buttler had to wait for an IPL debut, primarily due to the curfew that was imposed on English cricketers for participation. Once that was lifted from the 2016 season onwards, Buttler obviously fetched a good price as he got picked by the Mumbai Indians. He juggled between the opener slot and a middle order position, getting a few starts without really making it big. The 2017 season was also more of the same for Buttler as he was used as a floater by the MI franchise. It was evident that the tournament hadn’t seen the best of him, like international cricket had been seeing for a while now.
The move to Rajasthan Royals in the 2018 auctions sparked a fresh lease of life for Buttler who however, started as a middle order batsman for the franchise, like his MI days. With the surfaces of Jaipur not as conducive as the ones in Mumbai, the struggles against the older ball was profound for Buttler. It was an enigma, considering that it’s the position he bats for while representing England. A late move in the season to promote Buttler as an opener produced immediate results, as he smashed five consecutive fifties to propel the Royals into the playoffs. Since then, he primarily batted as an opener in T20 cricket and excelled in the BBL too for the Sydney Thunder.
The 2019 season saw Buttler scoring three half-centuries for the Royals in eight innings before heading back home - to prepare for the World Cup. Buttler, unfortunately, didn’t get the necessary support from the other batsmen and hence his performances went in vain and Rajasthan had a mediocre season. After being pushed back into the middle-order in 2020 to aid team balance, Buttler had mediocre returns and things didn’t change too much in 2021 either as he started off batting at 4. The following season, however, Buttler produced mind-boggling figures. Pushed back up the order, Buttler scored four centuries that season, equalling Virat Kohli’s record, on-route to 863-runs - the second highest tally in an IPL season. He won the Orange Cap and also the Most Valuable Player award in a season where the Royals faltered at the final hurdle to the Gujarat Titans.
Jos Buttler will be leading England in World Cup 2023 and given his experience of playing in IPL, the skipper will be looking forward to making an impact for the defending champions. He has the ability to mix caution and aggression and England will be expecting Buttler to fire and be at his best in order to defend their World Cup title. The flamboyant batter loves to bat in Indian conditions and opposition bowlers need to be wary of his exploits in the tournament.
Heres what ESPNcricinfo says about him.
England have had many players down the ages who have gained world acclaim, but Jos Buttler is arguably their first global Twenty20 superstar. Buttler helped bring England's limited-overs batting into the 21st century, his impact on the one-day and T20 sides extraordinary as they turned a group-stage exit in the 2015 World Cup into a triumph on home soil four years later, with his efforts with the bat and the gloves crucial to their Super-Over victory in the final. In an 18-month period from mid-2014, he scored what at the time were England's three fastest one-day hundreds - thrilling innings against Sri Lanka at Lord's, New Zealand at Edgbaston and, topping the list, a 46-ball onslaught against Pakistan in Dubai. He has also shone at the IPL, and quickly became a senior player in the Test side since his surprise recall in 2018.
Softly-spoken and unassuming, with supple hands and a great eye, Buttler kills opposing attacks with kindness, with a graceful flip shot for six over long-on and the occasional resort to a nerveless ramp shot over the wicketkeeper among his most eye-catching shots in an inventive repertoire. Like his captain, Eoin Morgan, his unflustered response to even the most daunting run chase is one of his greatest assets, his steely resolve hidden beneath a benign exterior. Such was his impact for Mumbai Indians in his first appearance in IPL in 2016, capable of mayhem late in the innings, that for a young cricket follower in India with only Twenty20 in their heart, it was possible to imagine that England had rarely, if ever, produced a player of such star quality.
As he entered his 30s, Buttler reached a new level in short-form cricket, becoming indisputably one of the world's best T20 batters. In 2022, he hit 863 runs in the IPL - the second-most in a single season - including four centuries to take Rajasthan Royals to the final. Later in the year, after taking over from Eoin Morgan as England's white-ball captain, he led them to their second men's T20 World Cup title as they achieved their long-stated ambition to hold both World Cups simultaneously. As Buttler and his old friend Alex Hales knocked off a target of 170 with four overs and 10 wickets to spare against India in the semi-final at Adelaide, it seemed bizarre that his promotion to open the batting for England's T20 team on a permanent basis in 2018 had been so controversial at the time.
Buttler was in the crowd at Taunton as a young spectator during the 1999 World Cup when India's Sourav Ganguly and Rahul Dravid thrashed what was then the highest partnership in ODI cricket. He was hooked. Somerset gained special permission from the ECB to add him to their Academy at 12, two years early, and he came to prominence as a 19-year-old in the 2010 season for Somerset, especially in the one-day arena where his clear-minded and quick-footed aggressive batting helped him to 440 CB40 runs at 55.00. He made his first-class debut against Lancashire at Taunton in 2009 and became a regular in the County Championship from May 2010 - playing a part in Somerset's title challenge that season. He combined in particularly potent fashion with Kieron Pollard in Somerset's run to Twenty20 Finals Day in both 2010 and 2011, and impressed in the 2011 CB40 final, making 86 from 72 balls in Somerset's defeat to Surrey.
He made his international debut in late 2011 and became a fixture of England's T20 side. A first ODI appearance came against Pakistan in the UAE during the winter, though he had to wait almost a year for his second cap, this time as wicketkeeper. When Ashley Giles took over as limited-overs coach one of his first key decision was to ditch Craig Kieswetter for Buttler on a tour of India. With Kieswetter still preferred as Somerset's gloveman, it was that rivalry that caused Buttler to leave his beloved West Country and switch to Lancashire for the 2014 season. Lancashire saw him for 10 Championship matches, but it was soon apparent he would be making only fleeting visits in the future.
England looked to him for impetus and increasingly he delivered, striking 99 against West Indies at North Sound and kicking off the 2014 ODI summer with a first hundred against Sri Lanka at Lord's as he led a failed run chase virtually single-handed. When Matt Prior became stricken by Achilles trouble - what proved to be a career-ending injury - the selectors gambled by throwing Buttler into the Test team. He scored five half-centuries in his first eight Tests, including 85 on debut against India at the Ageas Bowl, but his form faltered and he lost the gloves to Jonny Bairstow on England's tour of the UAE in 2015-16, during a period where his keeping started to make necessary improvements but his batting slip away.
There were no such doubts about his place in the white-ball teams. His seniority was recognised when he was named Morgan's vice-captain for the 2015 World Cup and, although that tournament was an unhappy one for England, Buttler was a key member of the side that reached the final of the World T20 a year later. His dynamic batting was emblematic of England's one-day reinvention under Morgan, though he also began to demonstrate increased range to his game - when he led England to an extraordinary one-wicket win over Australia at Old Trafford in 2018, his unbeaten 110 from 122 balls was by far the slowest hundred of his career.
Amid increasing demand on the T20 circuit, which included spells in the Bangladesh Premier League and Australia's Big Bash, Buttler's Test star seemed to be waning. He was briefly recalled in India in 2016-17 but then spent more than a year on the fringes, and was even overlooked as Bairstow's back-up during the following winter's Ashes tour. However, his stellar form for Rajashtan Royals in the 2018 IPL - he equalled the league record for consecutive fifties - prompted Smith to pick up the phone. Impressive contributions against Pakistan followed, and then, at long last, a maiden Test hundred, recorded in defeat to India at Trent Bridge. Suddenly, Buttler was integral in all three formats once again.
He remained integral to the 50-over side building into the World Cup, and started the tournament itself in flying form with 103 off 76 balls in a defeat against Pakistan and a quick half-century against Bangladesh. But time at the middle was limited through the rest of the group stage, and England were so dominant in the semi-final against Australia that he was not required. In the final, his skill in run chases came to the fore: coming in with England wobbling at 86 for 4 in a chase of 242, he kept them alive with 59 off 60 balls in a 110-run stand with Ben Stokes, and while he could not see them home, he managed seven runs off three balls in the Super Over, and completed the run-out of Martin Guptill to win England the trophy.
The highs of World Cup success were quickly forgotten, as Buttler cut a tired figure over the next six months. He struggled for runs in the Ashes and in South Africa, and with Bairstow and Ben Foakes breathing down his neck, it seemed a matter of time before he would lost his Test place. He responded with a breathless 75 off 101 in the home summer against Pakistan to seal a run chase at Old Trafford, before grinding out his highest Test score - 152 - in the final match of the series. By this stage firmly ensconced as England's T20I opener, he continued to lead from the front in their bid to hold both World Cups simultaneously.
ESPNcricinfo staff