IPL 2018 : 4 players who are performing well after being promoted as openers 

#2 Jos Buttler

Jos Buttler

Jos Buttler played his first IPL season for Mumbai Indians in the year 2016. In his first IPL season, Buttler played for MI as a middle order batsman and had scored 255 runs in 14 matches at a strike rate of 138.58. In the IPL 2017, MI gave Buttler an opportunity to open the innings and he performed well as an opening batsman scoring 272 runs in 10 matches at a strike rate of 153.67. In the IPL auction 2018, Rajasthan Royals seized Buttler for 4.4 crores after a furious bidding war with MI.

In the IPL 2018, Jos Buttler struggled to score runs in the middle and was asked to open the innings for RR after playing 7 matches. In the first match as the opener against Delhi Daredevils on May 2, 2018, Buttler blasted a brilliant half-century and scored 67 runs in 26 balls.

He continued his good form by scoring four half-centuries in the next four matches and Buttler became the 2nd player in the IPL history to score 5 consecutive half centuries in 5 matches after Virender Sehwag (for DD in 2012). Buttler is also the 2nd player to score three consecutive 80+ scores in IPL after Glenn Maxwell in 2014 and he is the first batsman to be stranded in the 90s for two consecutive innings.

Jos Buttler has scored 509 runs in 12 matches at a stunning strike rate of 153.77 and at an average of 56.55 in the IPL 2018 so far.