Jos Buttler OA - England & Somerset CCC Professional
Full name: Joseph Charles Buttler
Current age: 22 years
Major teams: England, England Lions, England
Under-19s, Somerset, Somerset 2nd XI
Batting style: Right-hand bat
Fielding position: Wicketkeeper
Education: King’s College Taunton, Tuckwell 2009
Jos Buttler is a crisp-hitting in the County Championship
batsman with immense from May 2010 - playing a part
promise. He made his in Somerset’s title challenge
international debut in late that season. He combined
2011 and became a fixture of in particularly potent fashion
England’s T20 side, despite with Kieron Pollard in
few initial opportunities to Somerset’s run to Twenty20
impress. His breakthrough Finals Day in both 2010 and
innings came against South 2011, and impressed in the
Africa at Edgbaston, with 2011 CB40 final, making 86
a blistering 32 off 10 from 72 balls in Somerset’s
balls, and he was given the defeat to Surrey.
wicketkeeping gloves in India, While he was at King’s he
after Craig Kieswetter - his club scored a huge number of runs,
team-mate and Somerset’s including a record-breaking
first-choice keeper - finally schools partnership with
lost the position. Alex Barrow (his Somerset
Buttler shot to prominence colleague). The partnership
as a 19-year-old in the was 323 in a 50 over game. He
2010 season for Somerset, scored numerous hundreds
especially in the one-day for King’s and captained
arena where his clear-minded the side for two years. He
and quick-footed aggressive continues to be a credit to the
school and still comes back
batting helped him to 440
for presentation evenings and
CB40 runs at 55.00.
coaching sessions.
He made his first-class debut
against Lancashire at Taunton
Matt Dunham/AP/Press Association Images
in 2009 and became a regular
Batting and fielding averages
Mat Inns NO Runs HS Ave BF SR 100 50 4s 6s Ct St
ODIs 9 7 1 101 47* 16.83 72 140.27 0 0 8 6 11 0
T20Is 21 16 7 242 54 26.88 164 147.56 0 1 20 11 5 0
First-class 45 66 6 1949 144 32.48 3229 60.35 3 9 273 21 77 2
List A 63 54 19 1903 119 54.37 1535 123.97 2 13 195 61 46 4
Twenty20 80 65 20 1203 72* 26.73 857 140.37 0 6 108 43 43 10
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