‘BUTT’LER SHOW!

Jos Buttler was one of the key players who was part of Mumbai Indians team this year. The English wicket-keeper featured prominently for the franchise, but could not be a part of the final as he had to join the England team to prepare for Champions Trophy. Buttler, however, did not miss any moment of the final, and celebrated Mumbai’s incredible one run win by removing his towel, reminding us of Ranbir Kapoor in Saawariya. The Bollywood quotient in the celebration will surely delight Mumbai fans. Buttler posted a video on Instagram, and also congratulated the whole team for their incredible performance. With the third IPL title under his belt as captain, Rohit Sharma is understandably elated. His Mumbai Indians had turned the match on its head after giving themselves just about some runs to bowl at Rising Pune Supergiant in Sunday’s final.

Rohit put the success down to allround performance by his teammates. “We’ve never relied on one individual to win us the game. Today was the perfect example. The bowling unit came in together. Again, we have got a few youngsters, a few inexperienced players and a few legends in our bowling unit. It was a combination of both. We mixed it up nicely,” he smiled. EXCERPTS:

On the team composition: Getting your combinations right and going on to the field is the most critical part of winning the tournament. Individual brilliance can win you a few games, but what are required to win this championship are team unity, team work and intelligence. We spoke about it at the start of the tournament.

If you look at the first two titles we won, we probably had one batsman in the top five highest run-getters. We didn’t have even one batsman in the top-five this time which is a little bit sad, but that goes to show that different individuals have come up at different times and taken up responsibility.

That is the hallmark of