England secured a crucial victory over T20 World Cup rivals New Zealand (Picture: Getty)

Jos Buttler became England’s leading run-scorer in T20 cricket as he starred in the crucial World Cup win over New Zealand.

He said: ‘Yeah, it’s a nice feeling. It’s a nice feeling, it’s always nice to look at your individual performances but I’m just trying to do my job on the day and do my best for the team.”

On England’s win, Buttler added: ‘I said at the toss you don’t become a bad team overnight.

‘We had a bad performance but we know we’ve got great players in our line up so there was still lots of confidence in the group and we left it all out there tonight.

‘It is a ruthless tournament. Last year we saw South Africa go out having won four out of five games, so it can be tough to get through.

‘But now we know it’s all in our hands and you expect to be under pressure in World Cup cricket, that’s what it’s all about.

‘With our line up we bat deep and it allows me to take it on maybe an over earlier than you normally would. The wicket was tricky, it was tough against the spin, but Alex Hales played really well at the other end to get us on our way and it took the pressure off me.

‘We are going to keep being flexible with the batting order, the game shapes up in different ways and we were finding the spin tough so it was good to get a left hander in early.’

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A big win for England in Brisbane.