Jos Buttler names two Indian legends who inspired him to play cricket

Jos Buttler inspired by two Indian legends: England’s swashbuckling wicket-keeper Jos Buttler is definitely one of the most destructive batsmen across formats in world cricket right now. Currently, he is a vital clog in the England team in all the three formats of the game due to his staggering performances in the last few years. However, in an interesting fact. Buttler has revealed that he was inspired to play cricket by two India legends.

Jos Buttler inspired by two Indian legends

Most of the cricketers have their own respective role models who inspired them while growing up to take up cricket as a profession. There have been some sensational cricketers produced by India who have made the country proud due to their brilliant contributions towards the game but Jos Buttler has stated that the duo of Rahul Dravid and Sourav Ganguly inspired him to play cricket. Both Dravid and Ganguly have been incredible batsmen and captains as well having recorded a number of match-winning performances during their playing days.

“Those were my formative years and watching that game with Ganguly and Dravid scoring big hundreds had an incredible impact,” Jos Buttler was quoted as saying to Cricbuzz.

Ind vs SL, Taunton, 1999 World Cup was my first experience of seeing Indian crowds and that ignites the fire of how passionate people are about the game and how cool it would be to play in a World Cup,” he added on the record 318-run match-winning between Sourav and Dravid.

IPL-Bound England players unlikely to be picked for New Zealand Tests

England is scheduled to host New Zealand for a two-match Test series starting with the first Test from June 2 at the Lord’s. With the England players back in their country due to the Indian Premier League (IPL) suspended indefinitely, it is understood that the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) is likely to ignore the IPL-bound England players for the upcoming two Test matches against New Zealand at home. The ECB had originally planned to announce a fresh squad for the New Zealand Tests as their main stars would have been busy in the IPL.

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