Many cricket experts and fans were left confused and stunned when young batter Nishant Sindhu was sent in ahead of Buttler during the crucial stage of the IPL 2026 final. Now, Buttler revealed that he was actually ready to bat at No. 3, but the GT team management had a different plan.
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Jos Buttler told Stuart Broad on the ‘For the Love of Cricket' podcast: “Yeah, well, the wicket went down. I got up to put my helmet on, and Ashish said, "Sit back down. We're going to send Nishant in at three. And I did ask him after the game. He just said he felt like he was not reactive at that point. It was a good chance to get Nishant in the game, who's a top-order batter who has sometimes been on that slippery slope. If the team gets going, he's sort of ended up not batting and is batting seventh. So, he felt like it gave him a chance to get in the game.”
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But things never went according to plan, and Buttler’s innings eventually ended with Krunal Pandya for only 19 runs from 23 balls.
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Jos Buttler reflects on GT's IPL 2026 Final collapse
Butler said, “Disappointing; you sort of get worse than a run-a-ball in an IPL final. It's not a great look. I had a plan in my head of how I wanted to play, which I think was the right plan. I just didn't execute it. I think if we could have got up to 180, it would've been a really good score.”
Notably, the Englishman enjoyed another outstanding IPL season. He scored 526 runs in 17 innings with the help of four half-centuries at an impressive strike rate of over 150. It was his second straight season when he scored more than 500 runs for Gujarat Titans in the tournament.
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