Xtra Time Web Desk: England stand in captain Jos Buttler on Sunday said he saw shades of MS Dhoni in Sam Curran’s unbeaten knock (95*) in the final ODI against India at Pune. Curran who plies his trade with the Chennai Super Kings in IPL, took the match deep till the end like Dhoni and almost single handedly won it for England.
With all eyes on the IPL beginning on April 9, Buttler believes Curran, who is in the Dhoni-led Chennai Super Kings, will have a great opportunity to talk to the former India captain.
“I”m sure Sam would want to talk to MS about tonight”s innings,” Buttler said at the virtual post-match news conference.
“I”m sure there were shades of the way that he (MS Dhoni) would have liked to take the game down if he was in that situation. He”s a great person for Sam to have a conversation with when he meets up MS (in the IPL).”
England all-rounder Moeen Ali will also play for CSK in the IPL.
“We know what an amazing cricketer, finisher MS Dhoni is. A brilliant learning curve for all our players to share dressing rooms with guys like MS” stature in the game. I”m very excited for them.”
The world champions had chased down 337 in 43.3 overs in the second ODI and Buttler said 330-target was a manageable score but they never had any partnership going.
“We were happy to chase that score. We thought that was a manageable score, but we lost wickets at regular intervals and never got those partnerships together. Never thought run-rate would be a big issue but we lost wickets,” Buttler said.