JOS Buttler has the ability to raise England's game, and his own profile, abundantly over the next four weeks, according to former England wicketkeeper, Matt Prior.

India will remain his own land of opportunity for a further two months after his international team-mates have departed the ICC World Twenty20 - win, lose or draw.

For former King's College pupil, Buttler, though, any demonstration - even a transient one - of his full capability for England will propel him into the consciousness of a billion cricket fanatics, before his maiden Indian Premier League campaign has even begun.

If he can put himself in that bracket, life will be changed forever for the Mumbai Indians' new wicketkeeper-batsman.

It will not do England any harm either, of course.

No one should be in any doubt either about the softly-spoken 25-year-old's ability to do things with bat in hand that others - even world-class opponents - cannot.

Buttler's demeanour, until that bat goes above his shoulder, is disarming and deceptive.

There is nothing in the unassuming tones that even hints at what he might do once he gets out in the middle.

A string of brutal innings for England already - Buttler has hit his country's three fastest one-day international hundreds - have put us in the picture, though.

Matt Prior, Buttler's predecessor as Test wicketkeeper, knew sooner than most that the new kid was a special talent.

Asked to nominate the potential stars of England's World Twenty20 team, one is immediately at the top of his list.

"One guy that stands out - and I'm probably biased because I was a wicketkeeper - is Jos Buttler.

"He's just extraordinary.

"He's been extraordinary in one-day cricket for a long time, when he was playing at Somerset."

Buttler is not the only big-hitting game-changer in England's line-up.

Ben Stokes springs to mind instantly too, although the Durham all-rounder has surprisingly yet to have the impact in limited-overs internationals that he has in Tests.

In-form Alex Hales, captain Eoin Morgan and Jason Roy - both short of runs in recent defeats to South Africa - and the reliable Joe Root are others on whom England hopes will rest, in a team whose obvious strength is with bat over ball.

Even in that company, though, Buttler is different.

Others beat the ring field on the square if they hit the ball well; Buttler does the same to those posted 80 yards away, in last-ditch defence of the boundary rope.

If the ball is more than a few feet either side of the deepest fielder, his bottom hand ensures there is no chance of stopping four - assuming the ball has not instead flown, as so often, high into the stand for six.

It could just as easily soar over the wicketkeeper's head too - because Buttler is a pioneer of 360 degree batting, and all its associated ingenious deflections.

It is all, of course, high risk - and between his astounding successes, just in the past month, there were two golden ducks and one run in three innings.

If he hits form, though, there is no telling how far Buttler can take England - and himself - as Prior is happy to convey.

"To have someone at your disposal who can bat in different positions as well and either take the game away from the opposition or win a game from any position, that's a frightening prospect to have.

"When you have someone like that, people within the team will look at it and copy it and say 'how do you do that?', 'how do you do this?'

"That just immediately raises the bar for everyone else involved in the team.

"Jos is certainly a 'stand-out' player for me."

Prior is one of thousands already convinced in England.

Buttler's next mission is to go and crack India too.