Jos Buttler mentioned he was motivated by “a couple of months of fairly unenjoyable cricket” and his errors behind the stumps as he led Gujarat Titans to an eight-wicket win in opposition to Royal Challengers Bengaluru within the Indian Premier League.
Buttler, who gave up the England white-ball captaincy after their Champions Trophy exit, accelerated after a cautious begin to make 73 not out and expertly steer house a chase of 170 with 13 balls to spare.
Batting at quantity three, he took solely 9 from his first 10 balls earlier than a pull for 4 and two sixes, the primary a top-edge over the wicketkeeper, bought him going.
He completed with 5 fours and 6 sixes in his 39-ball knock as he placed on 75 with opener Sai Sudharsan and an unbroken 63 with Sherfane Rutherford.
Buttler’s commanding innings got here after he dropped RCB opener Phil Salt and missed a stumping probability to dismiss one other England team-mate in Liam Livingstone, who top-scored with 54 within the hosts 169-8.
“I used to be fairly embarrassed,” mentioned Buttler, who made 54 and 39 in his earlier two innings at this yr’s IPL.
“The one factor I can consider is I used to be making an attempt to throw it [the catch] up a bit early [to celebrate]. I barely bought a glove on it. It hit me within the chest.
“On account of that embarrassment I used to be fairly decided to attain some runs.”
