The 29-year-old England wicket-keeper batsman and limited-overs vice-captain Jos Buttler has recently revealed that the former Indian World Cup-winning captain MS Dhoni is always a big idol of him.
Recently in an interview with his English county team Lancashire Cricket, Jos Buttler spoke about the game. During that interview, Buttler named MS Dhoni as his idol. While Buttler serves for Rajasthan Royals (RR) in the IPL, Dhoni leads the Chennai Super Kings (CSK), and still, the English cricketer tries to take the great lesson from the former Indian captain when they face each other in the IPL.
Buttler said, “MS Dhoni has always been a big idol of mine and chaos is always going around him, people wanting a bit of him, the cricket and the noise.
“….it is such a great lesson to just watch him and see first hand how to manage all that thing if you have to perform at the top level and perform in those crunch moment, that certainly has been one of the massive pluses.”
Jos Buttler praised IPL
Rajasthan Royals cricketer has praised the IPL as he feels that it provides a great learning curve by setting the strong challenges for the overseas cricketers.
Buttler added, “It was one of pressures you have to learn, especially in India, as an oversees players, you are one of the four in the team and you know the other four who are not playing are also world class players. So you are under pressure to perform.
“So that’s been a great learning curve. One of the things I came out with from the first IPL is to just learn to deal with the chaos.”
Jos Buttler has played 45 IPL matches where the wicket-keeper batsman has scored 1386 runs (average 35.53), including nine half-centuries. Buttler made his IPL debut in 2016 for Mumbai Indians (MI), and in 2018, he joined his present team Rajasthan Royals.
In the 2018 season, Buttler was the sixth most run-scorer as the right-handed batsman scored 548 runs in 13 matches (average 54.80), including five successive fifties.
Buttler has no problem to restart the game in empty stadiums. Though he feels that it will create a strange atmosphere, he also believes that it will take back the cricketers to the beginning chapter of their career.