Recently, the England cricket team was on tour to South Africa for three-match ODIs series, and South Africa won the ODI series by 2-1.
The last ODI match of the series was played on 1st February, which the visitors won. The English team won that match by 59 runs. In that match, skipper Jos Buttler played a splendid inning of 131 runs off 127 with the help of 6 fours and 7 elegant sixes. With this fabulous innings, Buttler breaks the record of MS Dhoni and Yuvraj Singh.
In a one-day internationals match, playing at no.5 or down to it in the batting order, English skipper Buttler scored 8 centuries to his name. Before this, former Indian skipper MS Dhoni and former Indian all-rounder Yuvraj Singh have seven centuries to their name playing at no. 5 or down in the batting order.
For his blistering innings of Buttler, he was named the player of the match. However, in 3 ODIs matches, Buttler scored 261 runs at an average of 130.50, and that’s why he was also awarded as the “player of the series.”
In ODIs batting at no. 5 or down in the batting order, English skipper Jos Buttler is standing on the top with 8 centuries. Captain cool and Yuvi have 7 centuries, and they are together on the second position. South African skipper AB de Villiers, Former English batter Eoin Morgan, and former Australian batter Andrew Symonds all are on third place in this with 6-6 centuries each.