Australia vs England, 2018: 4 Englishmen to watch out for

Jos Buttler

After a few years of struggling with the highs of blistering knocks and the lows of failing his team when needed the most, Buttler seems to have cracked the mystery to survive in the rare middle ground of consistency. His stint at the IPL, where he was pushed to the top of the order by mentor Shane Warne to allow him to express himself, turned around things for Buttler. He went on to play two important knocks for England in the recently concluded test series against Pakistan, and now seems to have found the right mindset to do well on a regular basis, a much different one from the older version, where he often looked to play shots out of a sheer obligation to his reputation.

As he has shown recently, especially in the Sydney ODI against Australia, Buttler now has better match awareness and channels his aggression accordingly. With a quick eye and even quicker hands, Buttler will pose a great challenge to the inexperienced bowling of Australia, especially Kane Richardson and Jhye Richardson, whose pace will be a double-edged sword against him.