Buttler wants England to cross 500-run mark
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England swashbuckling batter Jos Buttler said that the team will keep on chasing the 500-runs mark in ODIs. England missed out on the achievement against the Netherlands on Friday in Amstelveen.
Buttler finished on 162 not out, plundered his ton off just 47 balls to power England to put 498 runs against the Netherlands.
While Dawid Malan and Phil Salt smashed centuries and Liam Livingstone steered the fastest ODI fifty as they surpassed their previous record of 481 against Australia in 2018.
“We’ve come close one time before this and the message in the team is to try to keep pushing boundaries and taking the team forward, take the game on,” said Buttler.
“Is it a matter of time before we make 500? I don’t know. We’ll keep trying to do it. It’s a tough thing to try to achieve. It’ll probably have to happen on a belting wicket at a small ground,"
“I think the biggest thing, irrelevant of the score, is the mentality we are showing as a team. We keep trying to better that and be better as a team when we play. We know that stands us in good stead.”, he added.
Buttler was lauded by limited-overs captain Eoin Morgan, he said, "Jos played in a world of his own, like he has been over the last year or two years,"
