T20 World Cup: England coach Matthew Mott says he doesn’t want to a risk with Jos Buttler

England’s white-ball coach Mattew Mott has said that he doesn’t want to take a risk with Jos Buttler ahead of the T20 World Cup while providing an update on the skipper.

Buttler is in Pakistan but hasn’t played any of the matches against the hosts till now in the ongoing T20I series. The series is currently 2-2 after Pakistan won the 4th T20I on Sunday.

Speaking after the match, as quoted by the Mirror, Mott offered an update on the England white-ball captain and said that he had suffered a significant injury and they don’t want to take a risk with him at this stage so close to the T20 World Cup.

The England coach did admit that they look to Buttler back into the side for the last few games against Pakistan.

“With regard to Jos, he’s still a while off, he’s not a player we want to take a risk on at this stage, so close to the World Cup, and it was a reasonably significant injury that he had,” Mott said in his post match press conference

“So, he’s champing at the bit for a game, but we’ll just try and see how we go and maybe in the last game or two we might give him a chance.”

Buttler said that the upcoming World Cup is kind of free hit for England. While he admitted that his side is dangerous, the England white-ball skipper admitted that they aren’t the favorites heading into the tournament.

“When you look ahead, there’s ICC events pretty much every year so there’s always stuff to build towards, there’s always exciting times,” said Buttler. “I think this World Cup coming up now is actually a bit of a free hit for us, it’s very early in our time as a team.”

“We’ve got a squad full of match winners and I think that’s an exciting place to be as a T20 team looking ahead to that World Cup.”

“We by no means go there as favourites, but I feel like we’ll be a dangerous team that sides wouldn’t want to play against.”