Abhishek Sharma’s innings was as clean a ball striking as I have seen: Jos Buttler

England captain Jos Buttler has heaped high praise on Abhishek Sharma for smashing a whirlwind 54-ball 135 in India’s 150-run win in the fifth T20I here, describing the record knock as one of the finest examples of “clean ball striking”.

Abhishek entered record books with the second fastest T20I century by an Indian batter off 37 balls and hit 13 sixes — the most in an innings for any player from the country, powering the hosts to 247 for nine.

“Yeah, (we are) obviously disappointed (with the result), they (India) played a fantastic batting innings. I think credit to Abhishek Sharma, I thought that’s as clean a ball striking as I’ve seen, I thought he played fantastically well,” Buttler told the media after India recorded their second biggest T20I win by runs on Sunday.

Buttler denied England were “shellshocked” from Abhishek’s onslaught on his bowlers but said there were only two options for his side — either to go boom or bust.

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