Jos Buttler admitted he had started to feel the pressure before he smashed 131 to send England to the top of the T20 world rankings with a Vitality Series whitewash over India.
A run of 18 matches in this format without reaching 40 had increased Buttler’s doubters, but he silenced critics in supreme fashion at the Ageas Bowl with an exhibition in clean-hitting, smashing eight sixes on his way to a first international century in three years.
