Gujarat Titans’ Jos Buttler gets contract extension with home Vitality Blast team, Lancashire Lightning

However, Buttler is going to be available for them after his IPL campaign in India.

Updated on: May 24, 2026, 17:44:17 IST

Written by Prateek Srivastava

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England and Gujarat Titans star Jos Buttler has signed a three-year extension with his Vitality Blast T20 side Lancashire Lightning. Buttler is at present in India playing in the Indian Premier League, where his side has qualified for the play-offs.

Lancashire Lightning will have to wait some more. (ANI Pic Service)

Buttler had a shaky start to the 2026 IPL season, but in the team's recent matches, he has done well. In GT's last two matches, he has scored a fifty. In his 14 matches so far, the 35-year-old has scored 302 runs at an average of 39.08 and a strike rate of 155.30.

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Buttler's Vitality Blast contract will go on alongside his central contract with the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB). The wicketkeeper batsman, who won the 2019 World Cup and the 2022 T20 World Cup with England, is happy with the development. “It always means a great deal to pull on the Red Rose. My international and franchise commitments mean I can’t be around as much as I’d like, but whenever I do get the chance to play or spend time with the group, it’s something I really value," he told Lancashire Cricket.

“Winning the Blast with Lancashire in 2015 was such a proud moment for myself and for the Club and it would be great to play my part in another success in the years ahead.

“I’m delighted to extend my T20 contract and I’m looking forward to contributing on the field and helping the squad in any way I can in the push for Vitality Blast success over the next few seasons,” he added.

The Blast is already underway!

Director of Cricket Performance at the team, Mark Chilton is also happy having secured the signatures of one of England's greatest white-ball players one more time. “Having a player of Jos’s quality and experience associated with Lancashire Cricket is hugely important and beneficial for us.

“Even if his availability is limited to short periods each season, the influence he has around the group is significant. The standards he sets and the insight he brings from playing at the very top level can make a real difference to our younger players and to our performances in the Blast," he said.

The 2026 Vitality Blast kicked off this past Friday, and Lancashire lost their first game to Surrey, rather badly. Now they play Nottinghamshire on Monday. The IPL comes to an end on May 31, and if GT reach the final, Lancashire will have to wait some more for their star player to return and boost their chances.

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Prateek Srivastava
Prateek Srivastava is a senior sports journalist having been in the profession for two decades now. He started his print career with the India Today Group and later also worked for the Asian Age. In 2009, sensing the wind of change, he switched to the digital media and joined Mobile ESPN. There, he covered the 2011 Cricket World Cup and 2010 Hockey World Cup as a venue reporter. He did plenty of voice-over work too, over there. After leaving Mobile ESPN, Prateek went on to work for Cricketnext, Gocricket and Cricbuzz. At Gocricket (Times Internet Limited), he covered the 2014 T20 World from Bangladesh. There he also received a team leadership award, given at the end of the month. Prateek has also covered the 2016 T20 World Cup in India, this time working for Sportz Interactive. He also worked for Chinese giants Alibaba over two years and led their ""Short News"" content team at UC Browser. While cricket is Prateek’s expertise, he has also done a lot of golf. In fact, he has covered India’s first two European Tour events back in the late noughties. He has also done extensive writing on football having been associated with the Indian Super League for three seasons. Finally, Prateek is a literature aficionado and swears by Philip Roth and Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and when he doesn’t joke, he is usually quiet and at work.Read More

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