To tune up for the upcoming home summer Buttler will feature for Gujarat Titans in the upcoming Indian Premier League, where he will be captained by India ODI skipper Shubman Gill and play alongside fellow England batter Tom Banton among a host of other international stars.
Gujarat’s opening fixture at the IPL comes against the Punjab Kings on March 31 and Buttler revealed he has spent most of his time after the T20 World Cup away from cricket in a bid to help him prepare for the upcoming stint in India.
“I couldn’t have been further away from cricket, which for me at the time was just perfect. It’s exactly what I needed,” Buttler said.
“Obviously the tournament didn’t go personally how I’d have liked it to go, and I just felt like I needed some space from cricket and not to think about the game, and I could not have been further away from cricket where I was in that week.
“It was really refreshing – I really enjoyed it, a complete sort of release. And slowly but surely, I’d say at the start of this week, (I am) just starting to reflect a bit and have a few thoughts about what’s important to me and my cricket, and why it probably didn’t go quite as I would’ve liked.
“There’s elements (to what went wrong) that I actually don’t really know exactly. For all your best intentions and hard work and efforts to perform, it just didn’t work, and sometimes that’s okay as well. That’s something I’ve had to realise. It wasn’t for a lack of effort. It just didn’t quite happen.”
