Tuesday’s clash in Barbados will be the first ever 20-over international between the two nations and the first meeting of any kind since 2018, when the Scots sprung a huge ODI upset at The Grange in Edinburgh. England will nevertheless go in as heavy favourites in their Group B opener and Buttler wants his players to give everything they have got to get the job done. Advertisement Advertisement Did you know with a Digital subscription to Yorkshire Post, you can get access to all of our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer ads, loyalty rewards and much more.
There will be more hype in the lead-up to Saturday’s meeting with rivals Australia but, with memories of last year’s troubled 50-over World Cup still fresh in the mind, where they lost six out of nine games, including a shock defeat to Afghanistan, there is no sense of complacency. “We expect a tough challenge and we’re all excited for that,” said Buttler. “They’ve come here to try and win games.
They want to beat us and we want to beat them, so it’s pretty straightforward. “There’s a good feeling amongst the team, we’ve had some good performances, but we’re fully focused on this game and we need to make sure we bring 100 per cent intensity to that first of all. Advertisement Advertisement “Every game we have to be right on it.
All we are focused on is that Scotland match and that is the biggest and most important thing right now.” England appear to have the majority of their firs.
