Less than 48 hours earlier in a similar room at Lahore’s Gaddafi Stadium following the Champions Trophy defeat by Afghanistan, Buttler had admitted he was considering his future.
Yet the speed of the decision – remember Buttler had said he didn’t want to make “an emotional decision” after England’s tournament exit on Wednesday – caught everybody on the hop, including his teammates.
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Just a few hours earlier, The i Paper, in a casual chat with England’s media manager, Danny Reuben, at the team hotel had been advised that Buttler probably wouldn’t be announcing anything for a few weeks.
It’s remarkable the news was kept under wraps.
Within 45 minutes, he walked into that room at the National Stadium alongside McCullum to tell the world.
“It’s all pretty raw, right?” he admitted before going on to detail how Buttler had broken the news to him.
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Read More“I probably knew, even coming into the tournament that it was going to be big for my captaincy and for where we wanted to go. I just feel like it’s the right time for me and the team, and for somebody else to get the opportunity with Baz to take this side back where it needs to be.”
Nobody will ever forget the part he played in England’s white-ball renaissance under Eoin Morgan, his predecessor as captain, following the dire 50-over World Cup campaign in Australia and New Zealand in 2015.
His team would have been nowhere near winning either had Buttler not saved the day with the bat alongside Ben Stokes, the pair’s 110-run fifth-wicket stand that resurrected England’s hopes followed by another 15 runs from the same pair in the Super Over that proved just enough to carry their country to victory in the tournament for the first and, so far, only time.
But that day at Lord’s, not to mention the 12 hundreds, 53 half-centuries and almost 9,000 runs across both white-ball formats, are what really count.
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As for his successor, McCullum has admitted this is likely to be announced in the next couple of weeks.
“There’s some really good leaders that have developed,” said McCullum.
“So there’s some really good options floating around. I’m sure whoever we settle on we’ve just got to make sure we’re giving them the right support so we can improve our performances.”
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