Jos Buttler sees the 'shades' of MS Dhoni in youngster Sam Curran

|| India Correspondent ||

In a nail-biting series decider, Sam Curran, while coming out to bat at number 8, led his side near to a victory after they were seven wickets down for 200. However, they eventually fell short by seven runs against India in the third and final match on Sunday and India won the ODI series 2-1.

However, England's stand-in skipper Jos Buttler has seen shades of the 'great finisher' Mahendra Singh Dhoni in Curran's crucial 95*-run knock that went in vain as they lost the game. He also believes Curran will have a great opportunity to talk to Dhoni as he will play under Dhoni in the Chennai Super Kings for the upcoming edition of the Indian Premier League.

"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)."

Meanwhile, England all-rounder Moeen Ali too will be played for CSK in the IPL 2021 as well.

"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," he added.

However, England had chased down 337 in 43.3 overs in the second ODI successfully and Buttler said that 330-target was chasable but they failed to make any partnership in the middle.

"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.