Back in 2008 the PCA chief I don’t think it will ever be straightforward. It’s down to you as a player to be very honest with yourself and if you want to be a part of it, accept the fact that some people won’t have the same opinion. Everyone is different but that is why the world is so good and why life is so interesting.”
The “it” in question, if you haven’t guessed already, is the Indian Premier League and the words are spoken by a philosophical Jos Buttler during a catch-up in Bengaluru over the weekend. England’s one-day wicketkeeper speaks of retaining ambition for a Test match return but at the start of the county season, there is only one place he truly wants to be. Buttler always seems to be fielding such questions these days. A unique ball-striking talent, many still wish to see him in the whites of his country. But with cricket’s tectonic plates having shifted so much in the
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