Jos Buttler said that Shubman Gill will be a good mix of Virat Kohli's aggression and Rohit Sharma's calmness as a leader of the Indian Test team.
Shubman Gill is set to start his tenure as the India Test captain with the five-match Test series against the England National Cricket Team. After replacing Rohit Sharma at the helm, Shubman Gill will be aiming to create history by leading India to a Test series victory in England.
Shubman Gill doesn't have a plethora of captaincy experience at the international level as he led Team India in just five T20I matches, winning four and losing one.
Shubman Gill might have received some good help from Jos Buttler while leading GT, and now the latter has shared his thoughts on the newly appointed India Test captain.
"He's a really impressive player and an impressive young man. He's pretty calm and measured when he speaks, but [it's] interesting, I feel like on the field he's got a bit of fight about him; a bit of intensity, quite passionate. I think he'll be a mix of Kohli and Rohit."
He's obviously learned from those two guys - Jos Buttler
"Kohli [was] that sort of real aggressive [character], really transformed the Indian team, in your face, up for the contest. Rohit [was] a bit on the other side, a bit more laid back, very cool, calm, collected customer, but with that sort of fight. I feel like, from my time knowing Shubman so far, he'll be a bit in the middle. He's obviously learned from those two guys… but he'll be very much his own man."
"He talked about compartmentalizing batting and captaining, so when he's batting, he just wants to be a batter, and then he will try and work on his captaincy and try and separate the two roles.
Indian Test captain is like the third or fourth-most influential person in India - Jos Buttler
Jos Buttler also spoke about the fame and power an Indian Test captain holds in the country and said:
"I think they say the Indian Test captain is like the third or fourth-most influential person in India, behind the Prime Minister etc. - so you really are put up on that pedestal."
"Kolhi is the king, Shubman is the prince: that's the narrative that they spin out there, and I feel that he's the coming man… Stepping into that No. 4, it's big shoes, isn't it? Coming behind Virat, and Sachin Tendulkar before that as well. That's obviously a huge role."
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