Jos Buttler still has England ambitions after 'disappointing' T20 World Cup campaign

[p]Widely regarded as one of the outstanding white-ball batsmen of his generation, Buttler managed just 87 runs in eight innings at the tournament as [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/team/england/UJC5mtAU/"]England[/a] reached the semi-finals before losing to co-hosts and eventual champions [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/team/india/fcOzl2uI/"]India[/a].[/p][p][b]"Obviously I had a poor tournament, which is disappointing,"[/b] Buttler, who remains on an England and Wales central contract, said on his[i] For the Love of Cricket[/i] podcast with former England fast bowler Stuart Broad.[/p][p][b]"But I have been playing some of the best cricket of my (career) in recent years, so hopefully I can get back to playing my best.[/b][/p][p][b]"I certainly have ambitions (to play for England again), but no longer being a captain, I am not a selector and whatever, so what will be, will be."[/b][/p][embed guid="d7ea2acf-ee69-4961-ad29-114abfa11fa3" url="https://x.com/englandcricket/status/2017959724361113793?s=20" social-type="twitter" /][p]Buttler, 35, is set to play for [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/team/gujarat-titans/WxbsgtO5/"]Gujarat Titans[/a] in the upcoming Indian Premier League and hopes time away after the World Cup "up the mountains" in France with his family will leave him feeling reinvigorated.[/p][p][b]"I couldn't have been further away from cricket, which for me at the time was just perfect,"[/b] said Buttler. [b]"It is exactly what I needed."[/b][/p][p][b]"Obviously the tournament didn't go personally how I would have liked it to go, and I just felt like I needed some space from cricket and not to think about the game, and I could not have been further away from cricket where I was in that week."[/b][/p][p]Buttler, a member of England's 2019 one-day international World Cup-winning team and also the skipper for their T20 triumph in Australia three years later, added: "It was really refreshing - I really enjoyed it, a complete sort of release, and slowly but surely, I would say at the start of this week, (I am) just starting to reflect a bit and have a few thoughts about what is important to me and my cricket, and why it probably didn't go quite as I would've liked.[/p][p][b]"There's elements that I actually don't really know exactly. For all your best intentions and hard work and efforts to perform, it just didn't work, and sometimes that is OK as well.[/b][/p][p]"That is something I have had to realise. It wasn’t for a lack of effort, it just didn't quite happen."[/p]