Jos Buttler is loving the Bazball buzz, but his full focus is on his new role as white-ball captain as he prepares for his first assignment against India #ENGvIND ======================================= 🎗️ Ben Stokes and his team of self-described "rockstars" have played to sold-out stadiums across the country over the last month, winning all four Tests against New Zealand and India to send the sporting public into a wave of Bazball-mania. Test cricket, in its new, ultra-attacking form, is back in the public consciousness. . 🎗️ But the McCullum tour bus is back in the garage for the foreseeable future, as white-ball cricket dominates the next six weeks of the England men's schedule. On Thursday, Jos Buttler's tenure as captain begins with the first of a dozen fixtures in the next 25 days, the first of three T20 internationals against India at the Ageas Bowl. . 🎗️ Three ODIs against the same opposition follow next week and the schedule does not get easier from there: there is a single day between the third ODI against India and the first of three against South Africa, with another three T20Is before the end of the month. England's white-ball players then go straight into the Hundred from August 3, then have two weeks off before touring Pakistan and Australia immediately before October's T20 World Cup. . 🎗️ As such, Buttler's challenge is to strike a balance over the next six weeks: he needs to keep his players fit and fresh so that they can peak in the knockout stages of the World Cup, but also has a responsibility to keep the game's many casual fans engaged during the Test team's hiatus. Not that they struggled during the previous break: in the gap between the second and third New Zealand Tests, they racked up a world-record 498 for 4 against the Netherlands in Amstelveen. . 🎗️ "Soaking it up around the country, you can hear the excitement in the way people are talking about the Test team and the style of cricket they're playing," Buttler said on Wednesday. "We've seen sell-outs on the last day of the Test and brilliant games going all five days; it's really Test cricket at its best. Players, especially, and the sporting public are really loving that." . 🎗️ Buttler has repeatedly poured cold water on the idea of a Test recall and did so again on Wednesday. "There's not many spaces available in that team, are there? Being made captain of this team in T20s and ODIs needs full focus and a lot of energy; that's where all my focus is at the minute. ============================== Cre: espncricinfo