Jos Buttler has become the highest run-scorer in T20 cricket history, surpassing Kieron Pollard's mark of 14,803 runs and taking his own tally to 14,833 across 522 matches in the shortest international format and The Hundred (BBC Sport).

The record fell during a season where Buttler has been in blazing form for Manchester Super Giants, smashing a 20-ball fifty — his third score past 50 in four innings. He now sits second in this season's Hundred run charts with 277 runs, trailing only Sunrisers Leeds' Mitch Marsh on 290. Buttler has also cleared the boundary 20 times in the tournament, again second to Marsh's 23 sixes (BBC Sport).

The turnaround is stark. At the T20 World Cup earlier this year, Buttler averaged just 10.87 across eight matches as England exited at the semi-final stage. A batter who had once held the record for the quickest ODI century — 100 off 46 balls against Pakistan in Dubai — looked utterly out of sorts on the biggest stage (BBC Sport).

The fix, Buttler says, came from a conversation with England batting coach Marcus Trescothick. The two identified a flaw in his trigger movement — the small preparatory shift a batter makes just before the bowler delivers. Buttler's body was twisting out of line rather than staying straight, which threw off his balance and timing. "If you work on your technique, it allows your mind to free up," Trescothick told him (BBC Sport).

Buttler worked backwards from the position he reaches when the ball leaves the bowler's hand, rebuilding his setup so the rest of his movement fell into place naturally. The technical correction unlocked the mental freedom that had been missing. Runs followed immediately.

Trescothick, who himself holds Somerset's record for the fastest T20 fifty — 13 balls in 2010 — has served as interim England head coach and batting coach across recent white-ball assignments (BBC Sport; BBC Sport). His role in Buttler's revival blends hands-on technical expertise with the kind of straight talking a senior batter needs when form deserts him.

Buttler was speaking while promoting the ECB's Cricket Cities project, an initiative designed to create opportunities for people to get active through cricket in urban areas (BBC Sport). It is a fitting backdrop for a player whose T20 journey began with a debut in 2009 and has now spanned 522 matches and nearly 15,000 runs (Olympics.com).

What stands out is the simplicity of the fix. Not a coaching overhaul, not a change of guard, not a dramatic reset. A batting coach spotted a foot moving the wrong way by a few inches. The batter corrected it. The mind cleared. The record fell.