Jos Buttler hopes to continue playing for England despite a poor T20 World Cup 2026 campaign. Buttler, who is England’s top run-getter in T20Is with 4,037 runs in 155 matches, was woefully out of form during the tournament in India and Sri Lanka. Buttler scored 87 runs in eight innings as England exited the 2026 T20 World Cup in the semi-finals.
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Buttler has scored just one fifty in England’s last four ICC events and has just 18 months left on his current contract with the ECB. Still, he hopes the semi-final against India in Mumbai will not be his last appearance for England. However, the former England captain admitted that the final decision was not in his hands.
“I hope so,” Buttler said on his For the Love of Cricket podcast. “I don’t know. Obviously I’ve had a bad tournament which is disappointing but I’ve played some of the best cricket of my (career) in recent years so hopefully I can get back to playing at my best.
“I certainly have ambitions (to continue playing for England) but I’m not captain anymore, I’m not a selector and whatever happens, so whatever happens. Yeah, we’ll see.”
HOW DID BUTTLER PREPARE FOR IPL?
Buttler decided to chase away the T20 World Cup disappointment by quitting cricket and heading to the mountains of France with his family. The England wicketkeeper will head to India to link up with the Gujarat Titans side before the start of the IPL.
“I couldn’t be further away from cricket which was just perfect for me at that time. It was exactly what I needed,” Buttler said. “Obviously the tournament didn’t go the way I would have liked and I just felt I needed a bit of space from cricket and not thinking about the game and I couldn’t be further from cricket where I was that week.”
“It was really refreshing – I really enjoyed it, a complete kind of release. And slowly but surely, I’d say at the beginning of this week, (I’m starting to) just think a little bit and have some thoughts about what’s important to me and my cricket and why it probably didn’t go the way I would have liked.”
“There are elements (of what went wrong) that I don’t really know exactly. For all your best intentions and hard work and trying to perform, it just didn’t work, and sometimes that’s okay. That’s something I had to realize. It wasn’t for lack of effort. It just didn’t quite happen.”
Buttler scored 538 runs in 14 matches during IPL 2025.
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19 March 2026 14:02 IST
