Jos Buttler, the batting stalwart for England, has stated that he believes Shubman Gill possesses both Rohit Sharma’s and Virat Kohli’s leadership qualities. According to the 34-year-old, Gill’s leadership style may fall in between the aggressive, confrontational leadership style of the past and the straightforward way of leading the team.
Jos Buttler added that he appreciated Gill’s discussion about separating the captain and batter inside of him. In IPL 2025, the Englishman played alongside the 25-year-old for the Gujarat Titans, who were eliminated after losing to the Mumbai Indians in the elimination match.
On the “For The Love Of Cricket” podcast, Buttler said to former England pacer Stuart Broad:
“Pretty calm and measured when he speaks but interesting, on the field I think he has got a bit of fight, bit of intensity. I think he’ll be a mix of Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma. I think Kohli sort of aggressive, really transformed the Indian team, in- -your-face, up for the contest. Rohit, on the other side, a bit more laidback, cool, calm, and collected customer but with that sort of fight.”
Jos Buttler
“I feel like from my time of knowing Shubman Gill, he’ll be a bit in the middle. I think he’s obviously learned from those two guys, been around those two guys a bit, but he’ll be very much his own man. What I liked about something he talked about as well is he talked about compartmentalising batting and captaining.”
Jos Buttler
“So when he is 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 which I think when you are doing such a big role being the captain of the Indian cricket team is he’ll have to try and do that well enough and have some good people supporting him.”
Jos Buttler
“He’s obviously captained two seasons of IPL cricket which is a big pressurised job. Kohli is the king, Shubman Gill is the prince. That’s the sort of narrative they spin out there.”
Jos Buttler
Jos Buttler Calls Rishabh Pant a Box Office Test Cricketer
In the absence of Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli, India will have some new faces on its forthcoming tour to England. Jos Buttler stated that the two major stars to look out for in the series, in addition to Shubman Gill, are Rishabh Pant and Jasprit Bumrah:
“Naturally Shubman Gill becoming the captain. I think three or four is probably where he will bat. Stepping into that number four is big shoes, isn’t it? Coming behind Virat Kohli and Sachin Tendulkar. So that is obviously a huge role. But I think there is the sort of players that I look at would be the captain Shubman Gill, Rishabh Pant, who I think is a fantastic Test match cricketer, box office cricketer.”
Jos Buttler
“He’s the kind of guy I’ll turn on the TV when he’s out there in the middle. There’s usually batters in India who are sort of star names, but I don’t think there is a bigger star in that touring squad than Jasprit Bumrah.”
Jos Buttler
