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Jos Buttler the benchmark in white-ball cricket

Jos Buttler’s rise to the top of the T20 run-scoring charts offers another reminder of the remarkable career of a batter who has transformed the white-ball game.

Jos Buttler picks out Harry Brook as potentially the best ever

By Evan Gallagher

The infamous shoulder shuffle is usually the first warning. Then comes the stillness, the bowler charges in, and suddenly Jos Buttler is somewhere he has no right to be, ramping the ball over fine leg, scooping it over the keeper or launching it brutally straight over the sightscreen.
For more than a decade, Buttler has made the extraordinary look ordinary.
He has not merely reached the standards of the world’s best white-ball batters, but redefined where those standards lie.
Now there is another measure of that greatness.
Secret to success
Last week, Buttler became the le...

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