Jos Buttler

Jos Buttler is an English cricketer who has been a part of England's national Men's cricket team since 2011. He was born in Taunton, Somerset, England, on 8 September 1990. Buttler is a right-handed batsman and a specialist wicket-keeper. On the domestic level, Butler plays first-class cricket for Lancashire. Butler also plays for the Gujarat Titans in the Indian Premier League.

Jos Butler - Along the Years

Jos Buttler Records

• 10th most number of sixes across all formats (304)

• Scored 2000 runs along with 100 dismissals as a wicketkeeper in ODI and Test

• Most catches and dismissals in an inning in ODI (6)

• Scored a fifty and inflicted five dismissals as a keeper in an innings

• 7th on the list of players with the most sixes in an innings (14)

• 7th Highest partnership for the seventh wicket (177 runs)

• 6th best career strike rate in ODIs (115.83)

• 3rd most dismissals in T20I career (87).

• 2nd most number of catches in T20I (72).

• 5th on the list of all-time matches in T20I (140).

• 5th on the list of most sixes combined in T20I, ODI, and Tests (385).

Jos Buttler Awards and Accolades

• Buttler was appointed Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2020 New Year Honours for services to cricket.
• ICC Men's T20I Team of the Year: 2021.
• ICC Men’s Player of the Month: November 2022.
• Somerset County Council: Chairman's Award.
• 2015 T20 Blast - Winner.
• 2017 Indian Premier League - Winner.
• 2019 ICC Cricket World Cup - Winner.
• 2022 ICC Men's T20 World Cup - Winner.

Jos Buttler's Career

Jos Buttler made his first-class debut for Somerset in 2009, and his impressive performances soon caught the attention of the national selectors. He made his T20I debut for England in 2011 and made his ODI debut shortly afterwards in 2012. He made his Test debut in 2014.

Jos Butler Domestic Career

Butler played a lot of cricket for Somerset even before he made it to the senior team. Butler was an integral part of Somerset's youth teams and represented the county at Under-13, Under-15, and Under-17 levels.

Butler also played for King's College, from which he had also graduated. In 2006, he finished the season with the school's leading batting average. He had scored 447 runs at an average of 49.66. The highlight of his school cricket career was when he scored 227 runs unbeaten and was involved in a 340-run opening stand with Alex Barrow in April 2008. Butler also captained King's during the 2008 season.

Butler made his first-class debut for the Somerset senior team in September 2009. He joined the team, replacing an injured Justin Langer. His debut match was for the County Championship against Lancashire. Although he scored just 30, he was able to retain his place in the team for the following Pro40 match against Hampshire and even made it to Somerset's squad for the 2009 Champions League T20.

After a fulfilling career at the Somerset, Butler decided to move to Lancashire at the end of September 2013. He has represented the club since then.

Jos Buttler IPL and Other T20 Leagues Career

Buttler made his IPL debut after he was bought by the Mumbai Indians and represented the Mumbai-based franchise during the 2016 and 2017 seasons. In the 2018 IPL Auctions, Butler was bought by Rajasthan Royals for a whopping ₹4.4 crore.

Scoring just 29 runs in his first seven innings, Buttler took off during the second half of the tournament, scoring five consecutive 50+ scores in consecutive matches. He is also the second batsman in IPL history to achieve this feat. Jos scored a total of 548 runs in the 2018 season.

Buttler was an integral part of the Royals' line-up till 2024. He has been one of their most consistent players, delivering at the time when his team needed him the most. In the 2022 season, he scored a total of 863 runs, striking 149, along with 4 fifties and 4 centuries. He was one of the anchors who took the Royals to the final of the IPL.

Jos Buttler's performance in the 2023 and 24 IPL was ordinary, where he scored 392 runs at an average of 28.00 in 14 matches in 2023 and in 11 matches in 2024, he scored 359 runs at an average of 39.89.

In the 2024 IPL, Jos Buttler scored 107 runs against the Kolkata Knight Riders and overtook Chris Gayle, one of the most successful batsmen of the IPL, to become the second player with the most centuries. Only Virat Kohli is ahead of Buttler, who has scored the maximum number of 8 centuries in the history of IPL. Buttler moved to the Gujarat Giants in 2025 after Rajasthan decided not to retain him before the mega auction.

Apart from IPL, George Butler is seen playing for Melbourne Renegades in the Big Bash League, Parl Royals in the SA20 League, and Comilla Victorians in the Bangladesh Premier League. He represents Manchester Originals in the HUNDRED.

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Jos Butler International Career

George Buttler started his international career in August 2011 when he played his first T20 International against India in Manchester. A few months later, in February 2012, he also made his ODI debut against Pakistan in Dubai.

Butters' Test career has seen him fluctuate between brilliance and struggle, but he has played important innings and maintained his reputation as a classy wicketkeeper. He hasn’t played any game in the longer format since the 2022 Ashes.

Jos Butler ODI Career

In 2012, Buttler made his ODI debut against Pakistan at Dubai. What solidified his position in the England ODI squad was his innings at Edgbaston against the South Africa cricket team. England were on 64/3 when Butler joined Somerset teammate Craig Kieswetter and displayed the sheer strength of his batting.

Buttler got a place in the ODI side for the 2013 tour to India as a replacement for a resting Jonathan Trott. He replaced Craig Kieswetter as the first-choice wicket-keeper midway through the ODI series. This helped him become a consistent player in the ODI squad of England.

Buttler was picked for the 2013 ICC Champions Trophy and featured in all the games that England played.  After being a part of the Tri-series in Australia at the beginning of 2015, Buttler was chosen for the World Cup. In the 6 innings he played, Buttler scored 141 runs with 39 and 65 coming against Sri Lanka and Bangladesh respectively, unfortunately, both in a losing cause.

Buttler took over the captaincy in the 2016 ODI series against Bangladesh. He was then picked for the 2017 ICC Champions Trophy and was later named in the 2016 ICC World ODI XI.

In the 2018 ODI series against Australia, Buttler smashed two fifties in the first four games to follow up with a century in the last game. England whitewashed the Aussies 5/0. In this game, Buttler was the only English player to score more than 20 and was described as “the best white-ball wicket-keeper batsman in the world”.

Buttler was named Player of the match for his 110 and received the Player of the series award for his consistent knocks for England. In 2019, England played West Indies in an ODI series where Buttler scored his career-best 150 in the fourth encounter, and the team accumulated a massive 418/6 in the 50 overs. He hit 12 sixes in his knock of 150, which was the most by an English batsman in an ODI inning at that time. He scored 51 to 100 in 15 balls and 100 to 150 in 16 balls. England achieved the record for most sixes by a team in an ODI inning with 24.

In the second game against Pakistan, Buttler hit a century in just 50 balls. This was the second-quickest hundred by an English player in ODIs. Buttler also holds the number one position for the record, which came against the same opposition in 2015. In the 2019 World Cup held in England, Butter was appointed as the vice-captain of the side and was denoted as the key player of England’s squad by the ICC ahead of the championship.

Although he had a slow start with just 18 runs in the first match against South Africa, he showed his true potential in the next one against Pakistan with a score of 103 runs in 76 deliveries, which was the fastest ton hit by an Englishman in World Cups back then.

He followed it up with a half-century against Bangladesh, and England registered a score of 386/6, the highest-ever total in a World Cup game. England made its way to the final and squared off against the Kiwis. Buttler hit a crucial 59 and contributed to a 110-run partnership with Ben Stokes, which helped the team tie the game. Buttler went out to bat in the super over alongside Stokes, and the two added 15 runs.

Buttler scored 7 of them with a boundary on the last ball. With New Zealand chasing 16 runs to lift their first-ever World title, the Blackcaps needed 2 off the last ball. Guptill ran for the second run, but Buttler ran him out, and the scores were tied again. But as England hit more boundaries than New Zealand, they were declared the winners. With this, England made history and stood on the World Cup podium as champions.

In June 2022, Buttler hit his personal best score of 162 runs in 70 deliveries in the first ODI against the Netherlands. England scored a colossal 498 in their 50 overs, which is the highest tea total in ODIs to date. In the same series, Buttler hit 150 runs in just 65 balls, registering the second-quickest century in ODI cricket.

Post the retirement of Eoin Morgan, Buttler stood up as the captain of the limited-overs side on 30 June 2022. He led the English side in the 2023 World Cup, which was a forgettable event for him as a batter and a leader. 

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Jos Buttler Test Career

Buttler got his maiden Test call-up for the England squad during the ongoing series against the India national cricket team in 2014. Buttler got into the Test side due to the dropping of Matt Prior, as he got injured.

Buttler played his maiden Test against India in the 3rd match of the series. He impressed everyone with a quick-fire knock of 85 runs in just 83 balls. Yes, it was a test inning! Buttler made a reputation for himself as a brutal batsman, hitting bowlers all over the park in all three formats. He featured in the final three Tests of the series and had a brilliant run. He played three innings altogether and scored 70 and 45 in the next two games.

In the 2015 Ashes, Buttler was included in the squad and played all five games of the series held in England. He had a horrifying run as he had a string of low scores and scored 42 runs as his highest throughout the five-match series.

After playing two Tests in the UAE against Pakistan, Buttler faced a lot of trouble getting his place back on the Test side. He was dropped from the third Test against Pakistan and wasn’t picked for the Test series against South Africa as well.

Buttler made his Test comeback against India in the third Test of the series. He featured in the last three matches of the series. Although it was a series to forget for the English team as they were thrashed 4-0, Buttler had a good series personally. He averaged close to 40, including a score of 76 in the game at Mumbai.

However, Buttler was not able to make his place in the 2017-18 Test squad for the Ashes. Next year, in June 2018, Buttler smashed the Pakistani bowlers in the home Test series. In the 3 innings, he scored 14, 67, and 80*. He ended up as the highest run-scorer in the series and also received the player of the match award in Headingley.

In July 2018, Buttler was appointed vice-captain of the Test side, replacing James Anderson. He brought up his first Test ton against India two months later, scoring 106.

In June 2020, Buttler was included in the 30-man English squad to train behind closed doors for the Test series against the Windies. In the series, Buttler looked in red-hot form as he smashed 2 half-centuries and averaged 52.

His score of 75 in the match at Old Trafford won the series for England. In the Test match at The Rose Bowl, Buttler hit his second Test century with a score of 152 and struck a record-breaking partnership with Zak Crawley. However, his keeping skills faced a lot of criticism as he missed out on a lot of dismissal chances in the series.

In the 2021 series in India, Buttler played the first Test in Chennai before returning home as per the team’s rotation and resting policy. He made his mark in the only game he played by scoring 30 and 24, alongside taking catches. England went on to win the opening match against India.

In November, Buttler took up the post of vice-captain of the England side for the 2021-22 Ashes. He had a poor run in the series as he scored two ducks in the four matches and was dropped for the final Test. His only decent performance came in the first match, where he top-scored for England with a score of 30-odd runs. Buttler was subsequently dropped from the England Test squad but remained a regular in the white-ball formats.

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Jos Buttler's T20 International Career

Buttler got his first international call-up when he was named in the senior England squad for the Twenty20 International against the touring Indian team in September 2011. Butler made his debut as a batter and not as a wicket-keeper.

Following the match against India, Butler retained his place in the team and went on to play against the touring West Indies side later in the same season. Butler has been a T20 specialist for England since the day he debuted. Buttler then featured as a regular batsman for England in T20I cricket in 2012.

In the game against South Africa played at Edgbaston, England were struggling at 64/3 in 17.2 overs. Buttler joined Craig Kieswetter, and the duo added 54 runs in the next 16 balls to take the final score to 118/5. In the same match, Buttler hit 30 runs out of the 32-run over against Wayne Parnell, the second-most runs scored in an over of a T20I match.

He was selected for the ICC T20 World Cup in Sri Lanka, where he played all five games. He had a poor first World Cup and could only manage 40 runs in the 5 matches with no promising innings to showcase.

With Buttler preferred over Craig Kieswetter, he cemented his place as the first-choice keeper for England. Buttler brought up his first T20I half-century against New Zealand in the second match of the T20I series.

Buttler then played in the 2014 ICC T20 World Cup in Bangladesh. Although England had an early exit from the competition, Buttler had two decent innings of 32 and 34 out of the 4 matches the team played.

In the 2016 ICC T20 World Cup played in India, Buttler was named in the England squad for the showpiece event. He showed good form and was vital in England’s journey to the final. He scored 191 runs in 6 innings at a strike rate of 159.16, with the highest score of 66 against Sri Lanka.

In June 2018, Buttler smashed the fastest T20I fifty by an England batter in 22 balls during the only T20I match played against Australia in Birmingham. However, Moeen Ali later broke the record when he hit a 16-ball fifty against South Africa in July 2022.

Buttler played in the 3-match T20I series against South Africa at the end of 2020. In the last game of the series, Buttler scored a brilliant 67* which helped England seal the victory. He was also a part of the record-breaking second-wicket partnership with Dawid Malan.

Buttler came to India for the 2021 5-match series in the T20 format. Buttler led from the front and hit 2 half-centuries in the five games, averaging over 40. He also brought up his best-ever T20 score of 83 in the same series back then.

Buttler then played in the 2021 ICC T20 World Cup and made history by scoring 101* against Sri Lanka in the group fixture. This knock made him the first English men's cricketer and the second player after Heather Knight from the country to score a hundred in all three formats of the game.

He smashed 269 runs in the tournament at a strike rate of 151.12 and finished as the fourth-highest run-getter in the seventh edition of the T20 World Cup.

Buttler was named the captain of England in the 2022 T20 World Cup in Australia. Despite losing to Ireland in the group fixture, England qualified for the semi-finals. The Three Lions posted an emphatic 10-wicket win over India in the semi-final in Adelaide, where Buttler remained unbeaten on 80.

England defeated Pakistan in the final by five wickets at the MCG to lift the trophy for the second time in eight editions. With 225 runs in six innings at a strike rate of 144.23, Buttler was England's leading run-scorer in their title triumph. 

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Jos Buttler Captaincy 

Jos Buttler was the captain of England in ODI and T20 formats from 2022 to 2025. Buttler captained England in 44 ODIs and 51 T20Is between 2022 and 2025, winning 18 and 26 games, respectively. His win-loss record was particularly dismal, ranking second among England captains with at least 15 games.

Jos Buttler Under-19 Career

Buttler made his England Under-19 debut in the first T20 against Bangladesh Under-19. Playing as a specialist batsman, he scored 33 runs off 17 balls and led England to a five-wicket win.

During the 2009–10 English winter, Buttler toured with the England Under-19 team in the Champions League T20 following the summer set-up's exit. He joined Bangladesh for the one-day series as a specialist batsman.

He failed to make any significant impact until the final match, when he scored 42 for England. He remained with the squad for the Under-19 World Cup, where he played all but one of England's 6 matches and scored in three of them. Wicket-keeping, he scored 91 runs in three innings, with a top score of 78 against India in the fifth-place playoff semi-final. His batting average of 30.33 placed him fifth in the England team.

Jos Buttler Family

Jos Buttler was born in a middle-class Christian family. His father's name is John Butler, and his mother's name is Patricia Butler. His father worked as a physical education teacher. Jos Butler grew up with his two siblings, a brother and a sister. His brother's name is Jimmie Gosser, and his sister's name is Joanne Vickers.

Buttler married Louise Webber in 2017. His England teammates Steven Finn and Alex Hales attended the wedding as ushers. The couple gave birth to a beautiful daughter in April 2019 and named her Georgia Rose. Buttler and Lousie were blessed with their second child on September 5, 2021. The couple named their second daughter Margot ''Maggie'. The couple welcomed their third child, a son, Charlie, in May 2024. 

Jos Buttler Salary

Jos Buttler was signed by the Gujarat Titans for ₹15.75 crore at the IPL 2025 auction. He was the most costly foreign player to be purchased at the 2025 auction.

Jos Buttler Cars

Jos Buttler's cars include: 3. BMW X2 - INR 45 Lakhs; 2. Range Rover Sport - INR 1.4 Crores; 1. Mercedes-Benz G-Wagon - INR 2.5 Crores.