On Wednesday, England skipper Eoin Morgan expressed that his team needs to find ways to tackle the Indian spinners, but opener Jos Buttler feels that the players rather need to stay calm and focus on the next game on Friday. He reckons that it was just one game and there was no need to overthink or worry about the outcome of the opening T20I played at Old Trafford.

Talking about the previous game, Jos said, “It’s one game. It’s T20. We will stick to what has served us well, stay true to ourselves and come back hard at them in the next game. India is and always are an amazing cricketing nation. They always pose different threats and a different style too, say, Australia, so it will be a really good challenge. This is why you play, to take on the best. Being a diverse country, we have a lot of Indian supporters and it makes for a great atmosphere. We just have to accept that, and they get that support everywhere in the world.”

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The only English player to show some positivity in the opening T20I was Buttler and he didn’t deny the fact that playing in the IPL has helped him fine-tune his skills further. “It’s been another good challenge for me in my career and refreshing. Whether that’s me opening forever, I don’t know, I’d hope to retain the flexibility. But it comes down to the makeup of the team. It’s about accessing the mental side of the game and that’s been pleasing, to work out good routines and staying in the moment in games.”

Kuldeep Yadav took the game away from the hosts in the opening T20I and Buttler praised the spinner and said it was important for the English batsmen to counter the chinaman bowler.

Buttler said, “It’s very rare and he’s a very good bowler. You see it a lot in international cricket that guys burst onto the scene and then people get a handle on them. It’s getting used to the angle [because] wrist-spin is usually right-arm. He’s a good bowler and as we have seen, wrist spinners have been a big weapon in T20. We know we are a lot better than we showed during that little phase of the game. We just didn’t manage to capitalize on the start.”