Has the failure of Indian batsmen camouflaged the failure of the bowlers to wrap up the Tail?

2. Contributors to England’s lower-order revival

Buttler and Sam Curran - The difference in the series

The main contributors to England’s late revival were Jos Buttler and Sam Curran. Not to forget the resistance of the bowlers, Adil Rashid, Stuart Broad, and Anderson. Buttler has so far scored 349 runs in the series. Sam Curran’s contribution has been a massive 251 runs.

To put in right perspective the performance of Curran, he has scored more runs than the England top order batsmen Cook(180), Jennings(153), Joe Root(294) and Bairstow (197).

Buttler is the leading run scorer in the series for England and only King Kohli is above him in the combined performance of both the teams.

The contributions from Buttler and Curran has been the difference to the overall result of the series.