Former England white-ball captain Jos Buttler has shared that he has spoken to India’s Test captain Shubman Gill via a few text messages amid the five-match Test series. However, he also said that he sent congratulatory messages to Gill following his impressive batting show in the series.

Buttler said to Stuart Broad on the YouTube channel, ‘For The Love Of Cricket’, “A couple of times (texted Gill), to sort of begrudgingly saying, ‘Well played.’ He does reply, which is nice; otherwise, I don’t think I’d send him another message.”

During the same discussion, Stuart Broad also shared that former India head coach Ravi Shastri had commented that Team India deserved to be 3-0 up in the series as well.

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“I have heard a lot of Indian fans say, and maybe Ravi Shastri said India could be 3-0 up. They haven’t won the real key moments, and we know Test match cricket is about that. Yes, they’ve got the highest run-scorers in the series, but it’s all about winning the key moments, and England have managed to do that. I don’t think India deserve to be 3-0 up . They could have been 3-0 up if they had just won those little hours, the most crucial in Test match cricket,” he shared.

Jos Buttler also believes veteran batter Joe Root wouldn’t be thinking too much about surpassing the batting maestro
Sachin Tendulkar’s tally of Test runs. However, Root is currently the second-highest run-scorer in the format, with 13,409 runs across 286 innings at an average of 51.17, whereas Tendulkar is at the top of the list with 15,921 runs from 329 Test innings at an average of 53.78 as well.

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“He’s not hunting down Sachin Tendulkar because that’s definitely not the way he plays his cricket or how he sees it. But he is number two on an incredibly elite list, with what seems like, if he stays fit, quite an attainable kind of thing, which is absolutely mindblowing,” he said.

“They would call the game off. They wouldn’t let it happen. I’d say I’m sort of like 50-50, or maybe a bit more in his favor. I do think there is a really good chance that he gets it. Hunger, I don’t ever see being an issue with Root. I don’t see that he is going to wake up in the next two or three years and go, ‘I don’t have the love for batting and playing for England’. He is always going to be in the team; he’d have to be playing terribly to drop Joe Root,” Jos Buttler concluded.