“I feel good actually,” Buttler said on For the Love of Cricket, a podcast he co-hosts with his former England team-mate Stuart Broad. “Feel good with the break after the [T20] World Cup, just get to put the bat down and have some space. Basically, just focusing on myself, and on my set-up and making sure when the ball is released I am in a good position – which I do.
“And then just trusting my game, trusting my experience, and trying to let it happen. I’ve got in some good positions, like getting in with a couple of starts. You always want to go on and make those match-winning contributions, but it’s nice to be feeling calm in the middle and in a good space. Hopefully that can keep that going.”
“Every day you start on nought and that’s kind of where I’ve been looking at,” Buttler said. “Just looking forward, not thinking of the past, looking forward to the games, and just trying to be measured and not reading too much into past successes or past failures.
“Sometimes you can – and I have certainly done it at times – get sort of a mental block against a certain bowler or a certain venue, and say ‘this doesn’t work for me, this ground.’ Or ‘why can’t I score runs at any ground’ or that kind of mentality. I’m trying to be really distant from that.”
Buttler also said he was enjoying the time spent with GT’s new batting coach Matthew Hayden.
“It’s been great to lean into his experiences,” Buttler said. “He’s a big man, you can just imagine his presence when he was batting, but when he’s speaking one-to-one, that aura is quite good. Getting to experience that has been cool. We’ve been talking about really simple things.”
GT’s next game is against Delhi Capitals at the Arun Jaitley Stadium on Wednesday. Buttler should slot in at No. 3, behind Sai Sudharsan and Shubman Gill. Gill is set to return to the playing XI as captain after missing the previous fixture owing to neck issues.







