Jos Buttler has stepped down as England’s white-ball captain following his team’s Champions Trophy 2025 group-stage exit on Friday.
Buttler announced his decision on the eve of the team’s final league stage match against South Africa, confirming that the match at the National Stadium in Karachi on Saturday will be his last as the leader of the white-ball setups.
After suffering a defeat to Australia in their group-stage opener last week, Buttler’s men suffered a harrowing defeat to Afghanistan in Lahore. England came up eight runs short as Afghanistan put on an inspired performance to pile on 325 runs on the back of opener Ibrahim Zadran’s 177 and held their nerves to see off the 2019 World Cup winners. The loss marked England’s seventh successive loss under Buttler’s captaincy starting from last month’s tour to India where they were blanked 3-0 in the ODIs and lost the preceding T20I leg 4-1.
While Buttler’s rise to the full-time white-ball captaincy after Eoin Morgan’s retirement was met with immediate success with the T20 World Cup 2022 triumph in Australia, the Champions Trophy is the third ICC tournament in as many years where England have failed to reach the knockouts.
“Yeah, I think the results aren’t where they need to be and I need to consider all possibilities. And like I said we need to get us as a team back to where England cricket needs to be in the white ball formats. And I think I’ve got to work out personally am I part of the problem or am I part of the solution?” said Buttler at the end of the Afghanistan match.
Leading in 43 ODIs, Buttler managed 18 wins besides 25 defeats. Buttler led the T20I side in 51, second only to Morgan (72), registering 26 wins and 22 losses.
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