ISLAMABAD – The England wicket-keeper batsman had a brilliant run of formfor Rajasthan Royals in the Indian Premier League (IPL) and thanks to hisperformances, Buttler earned a call-up to the England cricket team for theTest series against Pakistan.

Buttler’s purple patch showed no signs of waning during the series as hescored 80* to guide his team to victory on Sunday. However, the Englandinternational found himself in the headlines for a completely differentreason as a picture of his bat went viral on the social media after thematch.

The picture showed the words ‘F*** it’ scrawled on top of his bat’s handleand social media users did not take long to start trolling the cricketer.The cricketer did not issue any clarification about the message but theusers on social media tried to come up with various explanations.

England thrashed Pakistan by an innings and 55 runs to win the secondcricket Test at Headingley in Leeds on Sunday. The victory, completedinside three days, saw England level the two-match series at 1-1 afterPakistan won the first Test at Lord’s by nine wickets.

It was also England’s first victory in a Test match since they beat theWest Indies at Lord’s in September, with the side having endured a winlessrun of six defeats in eight Tests coming into this fixture.