Patient Buttler prepared to take his latest chance in Twenty20

Buttler has been with the squad throughout England’s nightmare sequence of five successive one-day international defeats against their hosts, remaining in the country after Somerset’s run to the Champions League semi-finals.

But the selectors made it clear from the outset he would not be available for selection until, as previously planned, he and opener Alex Hales come into contention for tomorrow’s tour-ending one-off Twenty20 at Eden Gardens.

Buttler, 21 only last month, has been deployed as an athletic substitute fielder and has therefore been with Alastair Cook’s team at every venue as they have moved from defeat to defeat.

He appears unscarred by the experience, though, and is keen to demonstrate improvement can emerge from adversity if he gets his chance to bat in the middle order in the shorter format.

“Everyone’s very determined,” he said. “We’ve got one last chance, nothing really to lose and an opportunity to express ourselves in the Twenty20 format.”

As for England’s miserable ODI campaign, Buttler added: “Good experiences and bad experiences, if you use them correctly, can only benefit us in the future.

“You can learn a lot from the games. But that’s gone now. We have a Twenty20 on Saturday; the fundamentals of cricket will be the same, and it will be down to who can adapt the best.”

Buttler’s precocious talent, principally as a batsman but also as a wicket-keeper, has quickly taken him a long way since he played the first of his 106 professional cricket matches just over two years ago.

But he is not taking his selection for granted, in what is likely to be a near 65,000 sell-out occasion, but said: “Every opportunity you get to impress people like that, you’ve got to take. It is a challenge.

“It is probably the easiest job to get picked in the squad.

“But once you get picked, then you’ve got to try to perform at that level.”