India, Feb. 27 -- Jos Buttler has now lost seven matches in a row as England's white-ball captain. The last one, to Afghanistan, however, would hurt the most as it put England out of the ICC Champions Trophy 2025. It was England's second group-stage exit in as many ICC events in the 50-over format in the last year and a half. Since taking from Eoin Morgan as England's white-ball captain in July 2022, Buttler tasted immediate success by taking the side to the T20 World Cup glory in Australia in 2022 but it all went south from there on.

In 58 white-ball matches under Buttler's captaincy since their T20 World Cup win, England lost 32, which included a group-stage exit from the ODI World Cup in India in 2023, a semi-final exit in the T20 Wor...