#5 Jos Buttler (Wicket-keeper) – England
England’s wicket-keeper extraordinaire is a natural in the shortest format of the game and, oh boy, doesn’t he make watching batting fun. A supremely clean striker of the ball, he boasts of incredible power and clears the boundary at will. He had a smashing 2016 batting in England’s middle-order while doubling up with keeping duties as well.
The cherry on the cake would have been the World T20 crown, but that wasn’t to be.
The highlights of his season include a sublime unbeaten 66 against the Lankans during the group stages of the World T20 that took his team to a 10-run win, a quickfire 17-ball-32 to guide his side in to the finals of the World T20 and a year’s best score of 73, against the Lankans again, where he opened the batting.
Matches | Runs | Average | Strike-rate | 50s, 100s | Best |
10 | 366 | 61 | 151.23 | 3, 0 | 73* |
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