England captain Jos Buttler termed his facet’s efficiency within the ICC ODI World Cup 2023 “stunning” on Thursday after one other poor present with the bat value the defending champions the competition towards Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka bowled out the title holders for 156 earlier than chasing it down with eight wickets to spare in Bengaluru. The humiliating defeat got here solely days after the Three Lions have been bundled out for 170 by South Africa to emerge winners by 229 runs.
Butter went forward so as to add the large margins of defeat his facet suffered within the event have been “extremely disappointing and irritating”.
“Extremely disappointing and irritating. We’re not simply dropping, we’re dropping by a good distance and enjoying a good distance in need of our greatest. You get on the airplane to come back to India and we’re in a very good place as a crew. But it surely has not simply labored in any respect,” he stated.
“I believe you are all the time questioning as captain. How one can get the very best out of gamers, how one can get the crew transferring in the precise course. I actually have a whole lot of confidence and perception in myself as a pacesetter and as a participant,” Buttler stated on the post-match press convention.
“However if you happen to’re asking if I ought to nonetheless be captaining the crew that is a query for the fellows above me,” he was quoted as saying by PTI.
“I will stroll again to the dressing room after this and have a look at the gamers and suppose how we discovered ourselves on this place,” he reportedly added.
England have 4 extra matches left within the event with robust groups like India, Australia and Pakistan lining up forward.
“It seems to be prefer it wants a number of miracles that we would should win each sport and issues go our method to progress additional on this event. However for the video games that we now have left, we need to play the cricket we all know we will play,” Buttler concluded.
