Stats: Buttler goes top, India hit new low
England completed a 4-0 T20I series win over India, registering a 56-run victory in Southampton on Saturday. Here's a stats round-up from the fifth and final match at The Rose Bowl:
4 – First instance of India losing four matches in a series or tournament in T20I history. Previous most was three (T20 World Cups 2009 & 2010, and the 2023 Caribbean series).
India winless in a white-ball series (Min: 5 matches)
| Format | Opponent | Season | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| ODI | WI (H) | 1983/84 | Lost 0-5 |
| ODI | Aus (H) | 1984/85 | Lost 0-3 |
| ODI | WI (A) | 1988/89 | Lost 0-5 |
| ODI | Eng (A) | 2011 | Lost 0-3 |
| ODI | NZ (A) | 2013/14 | Lost 0-4 |
| T20I | Eng (A) | 2026 | Lost 0-4 |
4 – Shreyas Iyer is the fourth Full Member captain to remain winless after seven T20Is in charge. He has won the toss in all seven, second only to Bahamas' Gregory Taylor.
257/3 – England's highest total against India in T20Is, surpassing 246/7 at Wankhede in the T20 World Cup semi-final earlier this year.
17 – Sixes conceded by India, the second most in a T20I, behind 21 against West Indies in Lauderhill (2016).
14,556 – Runs by Jos Buttler, the most for an England batter in all T20 cricket, surpassing Alex Hales (14,449). Only Kieron Pollard (14,736) and Chris Gayle (14,562) are ahead. Buttler hit his ninth T20 hundred, his first on English soil.
131 – Buttler's highest individual score against India in T20Is, surpassing Evin Lewis' 125* (Kingston, 2017). It's the second-highest for England in the format after Phil Salt's 141*.
Highest individual scores vs India
| Player | Score | Venue | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| J Buttler | 131 | Southampton | 11-Jul-26 |
| E Lewis | 125* | Kingston | 09-Jul-17 |
| S Watson | 124* | Sydney | 31-Jan-16 |
| G Maxwell | 113* | Bengaluru | 27-Feb-19 |
| J Inglis | 110 | Visakhapatnam | 23-Nov-23 |
| C Munro | 109* | Rajkot | 04-Nov-17 |
233 – Partnership between Buttler and Harry Brook, the second-highest for any wicket by a Full Member side in T20Is, behind Hazratullah Zazai and Usman Ghani's 236 (2019). It's also the highest second-wicket stand in T20Is, beating Sanju Samson and Tilak Varma's 210* (Johannesburg, 2024).
Highest partnerships in T20Is (Full Member teams)
| Partners | Wkt | Runs | Opponent | Venue | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zazai-Ghani | 1 | 236 | Ire | Dehradun | 23-Feb-19 |
| Brook-Buttler | 2 | 233 | Ind | Southampton | 11-Jul-26 |
| Finch-Short | 1 | 223 | Zim | Harare | 03-Jul-18 |
| Samson-Tilak | 2 | 210* | SA | Johannesburg | 15-Nov-24 |
| Babar-Rizwan | 1 | 203* | Eng | Karachi | 22-Sep-22 |
19 – Balls taken by Brook to reach his fifty, joint second-fastest against India behind Marco Jansen's 16-ball effort (2024).
229 – Runs by Brook this series, the most against India in a bilateral T20I series, surpassing Nicholas Pooran's 184 (2022). Brook's strike rate of 214 is second only to Abhishek Sharma's 219.68 (279 runs vs England, 2025).
