He got 145 runs in one match & made 85 and then 70 and DNB in the second innings, all vs India, which is something Burns has never done.16 more runs in 4 (and a bit) matches, and with that you're saying one is under pressure and one isn't. What I said was that it was a great innings building on a solid series v the Windies, and it was. It's the first time since Sri Lanka 2018 that he's justified his place. Good on him.
Three weeks ago Burns got 147 runs in one match, something Buttler has never done. Not as a keeper, nor as a batsman in his 46 matches.
It's pretty funny that you brought up Buttler and compared him to Burns, and now you're claiming I'm 'comparing apples with oranges'. And it's even funnier that you seem to be focusing on the catches Burns dropped in the slips, but not the horrendous performance behind the stumps which required him and Woakes to rescue the game. Objective you say?
If Burns is still struggling in a few games time, then we'll talk.
Which just illustrates the point that you cannot be objective.
How many centuries has Burns got this summer, since that seems to be the yardstick we use to judge batsman on?
I compared Burns recent record to Buttler's as it is worse. As a specialist batsman you would expect the opposite.
It's clear, neither are being judged fairly.
Didn't win either of those games.
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