Follow UsJos Buttler, in his first match as captain under the coaching of Brendon McCullum, scripted history by becoming the second Englishman and seventh player overall to amass 12,000+ runs in T20 cricket. Buttler needed to score 34 runs or more in the first T20I to get the landmark and, on the night, he got there in the sixth over of the game by taking a double off the bowling of Varun Chakravarthy.
Alex Hales (13,361 runs) is the only other Englishman to have amassed over 12,000 runs in T20s. James Vince (11,489 runs) is third in the list behind Hales and Buttler and could soon join the list.
Buttler, notably, is one among nine batters in T20s to have smashed over 500 sixes. He is ninth in the list with 510 but is not far away from the eighth-placed Rohit Sharma, who sits at 525. In T20Is, Buttler is the only England batter to have amassed over 3000 runs. In fact, the England skipper is the sixth-highest run-getter in T20Is.
On the night, the right-hander brought up his 27th 50-plus score in T20Is and 92nd overall in T20s. He now has five T20I fifties against India - the joint-most for any player, levelling Nicholas Pooran.