Jos Buttler

Steve Smith’s brilliant hundred and a clinical show by the bowlers at the death helped Australia beat England by 12 runs in their World Cup warm-up game here Saturday.

Former Australia skipper Steve Waugh has picked the top three batsmen he would be looking forward to in the upcoming World Cup beginning on May 30 in England and Wales.

England, for the first time, will go into the event as leading contender to win the trophy and the extent of their dominance can be judged by the fact they have not lost an ODI series in the last two years

“Both obviously amazing batters, I first time saw Steve up so close this IPL, it was a great experience to watch him go about his practice and his work ethics.

During the fifth ODI between England and Pakistan, Buttler dismissed Sarfaraz Ahmed with run-out in a fashion which was earlier done by MSD.

How do you stop Jos Buttler? It was a question that was being asked again after the talented batsman’s latest one-day international hundred saw England to a 12-run win over Pakistan in the second one-day international on Saturday.

In the fourth match of the tournament, R Ashwin of Kings XI Punjab ‘Mankaded’ Jos Buttler of the Rajasthan Royals. This triggered a huge uproar among experts and cricketers, both old and new.

Both Rajasthan Royals and Sunrisers Hyderabad will begin life without their key overseas players when they face-off in the Indian Premier League here on Saturday.

Once again rising to the occasion, Jos Buttler pummelled the Mumbai Indians bowling attack to guide Rajasthan Royals to a crucial four-wicket win against Mumbai Indians, here on Saturday.

Here we have look at some of such incidents of IPL 2019 where bowlers tried to Mankad batsmen, or at least threatened them with a warning of mankading.