‘At the toss next game…’: Jos Buttler furiously states asking Match referee some Questions

England captain Jos Buttler jokingly stated about naming the playing 12 as done in the IPL, where a team can introduce an impact player in the second innings.

England captain Jos Buttler was furious after the 4th T20I ended between India and England. In the post-match presentation, he got asked about concussion replacement Harshit Rana for Shivam Dube, but did not speak anything until the obvious question came up. Buttler did not feel like it was a like-for-like replacement.

Jos Buttler expressed how he was surprised to see Rana on the field when he came out and walked to bat in the run chase. The wicketkeeper-batter expressed that he has a few questions to ask the match referee Javagal Srinath.

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“Either Shivam Dube has put on about 25 mph with the ball or Harshit has really improved his batting. It’s not a like-for-like replacement, we don’t agree with that. It’s part of the game, I still think we should have gone on to win the match but we disagree with the decision,” Buttler told the reporters.

“There’s no consultation. It was something as I came out to bat, I was thinking ‘who’s Harshit on for’ and I was told he was the concussion replacement, which I obviously disagreed with, it’s not a like-for-like replacement. They [umpires] said the match referee had made the decision so we had no say in it or any part of it. We’ll ask Javagal Srinath [match referee] some questions just to get some clarity around it,” he added.

“If the ICC Match Referee believes that the inclusion of the nominated Concussion Replacement, when performing their normal role, would excessively advantage their team, the ICC Match Referee may impose such conditions upon the identity and involvement of the Concussion Replacement as he/she sees fit, in line with the overriding objective of facilitating a like-for-like replacement for the concussed player.”

India won the fourth match of the series by 15 runs and secured if 3-1. Now, both the teams will face each other for the final match of the series to conclude whether India will win 3-2 or 4-1.

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