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At the beginning of the summer, Jos Buttler was playing his role in the Indian Premier League and one of England 's most talented drummers seemed to be locked in the golden cage of the white ball, despite the hopes of a test return. 19659002] But with national selector, Ed Smith, granting this wish for the two-game series against Pakistan, in a bold move that avoids the conventional cricketing logic of needing strong county returns, Buttler finds himself just an injury to Joe Root away to lead the camp after being named the new vice-captain for the visit of India.
Jimmy Anderson leaves the role he has held since the arrest of Ben Stokes in Bristol last September and in his place comes a drummer who plays as specialist No. 7 and is still recording its first century of testing 20 caps stop-start to date; on paper, it seems that the management of the team has demonstrated a remarkable faith.
And yet, Buttler having long been the consigliere of Eoin Morgan in the one day day of England, leading them even to -1 victory in Bangladesh when the captain retired for security reasons – Root is now keen to cash not only on the 27-year-old's ability to land bowling attacks, but also on his cricketing brain.
"He thinks extremely well about the game and has a lot of respect in the locker room, and looking at the very long run – I think at five to 10 years – I see him as someone who can really drive that team forward, "said Root." It may be that he only came back a few games, but I think he can offer a huge amount of the way he behaves and leads, as well than what he does with the bat. "
That might be a bold statement, but I see it as a great opportunity and it gives us a different way of looking at things, maybe to be taking a few things on the side of a day, they have not tried to reproduce it, but they have obviously been very successful and it would be wrong not to take advantage of it. "
Root , who was speaking before Wednesday's opening match at Edgbaston, also wanted to point out that no reflection about the work that Anderson has done, nor about allowing him to gradually withdraw despite the fact that this week has been 36 years old and that a shoulder injury is going on.
taker to be a "massive party" of the team for "the next few years". It becomes clear, however, that Anderson, Alastair Cook, and Stuart Broad are considered high-level players, but not the central core of the test locker room, with Root, Stokes, Buttler, and Jonny Bairstow now the main pillars instead.
whose 18 month term as head of the Test team has somewhat weakened after two home wins against South Africa and the West Indies last summer, added: "It's a chance for us to have a group of players really lead this team in a strong direction and a better direction than we've been to go."
Buttler was designated as a team test captain by Smith in 2017, when the national coach was a newspaper columnist. But his promotion for this series alone, rather than for an indefinite period, may indicate both his constant desire to permanently cement a place and the fact that Stokes could be considered for a return to the role according to the outcome of the trial. Bristol next week (He pleaded not guilty to a charge of taunting.)
Root conceded as much in naming his new MP – "It's a decision for after this series and a decision that is made on my head "- but for now his second – the Commander is a Midas player this summer, with an average of 67 on all formats, and a player whose behavior with the soft voice masks an incredibly ruthless approach Sport.
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