For me it's a no-brainer that Jos Buttler takes over that role: Micheal Vaughan

Former cricketer turned commentator Michael Vaughan has opined that Jos Buttler is the best choice to captain England in the white-ball formats. He further claimed that Buttler could don the role of an opener in the red-ball format.

Although the 31-year-old was dropped from the Test side, he won the orange cap in the IPL 2022 and continued his momentum with unbeaten knocks of 162 and 86 in the recently concluded ODI series against the Netherlands. 

Vaughan thinks Buttler is the best white-ball player around and hailed the wicket-keeper's smart thinking and calmness in crunch moments of the game. 

"For me, it's a no-brainer that Jos Buttler takes over that role," Vaughan wrote in the Daily Telegraph.

"He's the best white-ball player in the world, he's got a very smart cricket brain, and he's got that calmness you need,”

Recently, there have been multiple reports of Eoin Morgan looking to announce his retirement due to fitness issues and bad form. 

"I guess his personality might be different from Eoin. The one thing that Jos will have to be very, very good at is staying the same when he doesn't have a good game or two. That has been Eoin's massive strength -- he has never changed,"

Further, Vaughan thinks the red ball has not produced enough movement in the recent matches in England's domestic conditions. 

"England have this fearless, aggressive nature, and the balls don't seem to be doing as much in the UK as they have done in previous seasons," he added.

The 47-year-old is excited to see Buttler as an opener under the leadership of Ben Stokes and Brendon McCullum, who also have the same attacking mindset. 

"If something as radical Buttler as Test opener was ever going to work it would be now, under this management group of Ben Stokes and Brendon McCullum. I'd love to see him in this group playing like he played in the IPL,”

In the end, Vaughan added that if the pitch is flat, Buttler can smash the bowlers all around the park, like the former Indian opener Virender Sehwag. 

"Of course, he's still going to have difficulty if the ball swings around like it did in the first innings, but when its flat like we saw in the second innings, he could murder teams with complete freedom to go and attack Virender Sehwag style," he concluded.