When Jos Buttler climbed into the last ball of the semi-final and swatted it for six he let out a roar that summed up just how much the win meant to him.
For this team now, for the team he was a part of in 2015, for the team that won in 2019 and for plenty more inbetween, this was a win for the ages built upon the bat of the finest white-ball cricketer England has ever produced.
Buttler is not always as demonstrative on the field, but he has a tough streak running through him and he can mix it with the more animated players in the game. He has had flashpoints against Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and South Africa, and when it was put to him that it was a surprise to see him react that way, his reply was simply “maybe you don’t know me as well as you think you do.”
