BBC Sport analyses the positives and negatives on whether England captain Jos Buttler should give up the wicketkeeping gloves in white-ball cricket.
Jos Buttler's troublesome calf has kept him out of action since June, forcing him to watch the rebirth of his side without him.
Even had Buttler been fit to play Australia last month, Phil Salt would have kept wicket in Buttler's place in the T20s with Jamie Smith also primed to do so in the ODIs. McCullum played most of his career as a wicketkeeper-batter in white-ball cricket only to give up the gloves in 2013 aged 32. "Being wicketkeeper is a massive benefit in terms of getting tactical information around decision-making," says Sam Billings, a wicketkeeping captain who has won the 2021 T20 Blast and the past two editions of the Hundred as skipper.
" Eoin Morgan was such a good captain because he had always captained from cover and worked on those conversations."McCullum's career may well have been extended by giving up the gloves but his batting average was just 29.76 after doing so.
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