Former England captain Jos Buttler believes that Shubman Gill’s captaincy for the Indian Test team will be a ‘mix’ of Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma, somewhere in the middle of Delhi man’s aggression and the Mumbaikar’s calmness. Buttler, who played under Gill for the Gujarat Titans in the recent IPL 2025, called the 25-year-old an ‘impressive young man’ with a ‘fight about him’. Gill has replaced Rohit at the helm of the Test team after the latter’s retirement in May. Kohli has hung up his Test boots, too, leaving the Punjab batter with one of the youngest squads in recent memory. The BCCI has trusted him to do the job ahead of seniors like Jasprit Bumrah, Rishabh Pant and KL Rahul, taking a huge gamble ahead of the Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy in England, where India hasn’t won a series since 2007. “He’s a really impressive player and an impressive young man,” Buttler told Stuart Broad on For the Love of Cricket. “He’s pretty calm and measured when he speaks, but [it’s] interesting, I feel like on the field he’s got a bit of fight about him; a bit of intensity, quite passionate. I think he’ll be a mix of Kohli and Rohit.” “Kohli [was] that sort of real aggressive [character], really transformed the Indian team, in your face, up for the contest. Rohit [was] a bit on the other side, a bit more laid back, very cool, calm, collected customer, but with that sort of fight. I feel like, from my time knowing Shubman so far, he’ll be a bit in the middle. He’s obviously learned from those two guys… but he’ll be very much his own man,” Buttler added. Buttler also spoke about the pressures Gill will have to deal with. He noted that the youngster wants to keep batting and captaincy separate, but said that he’d need a lot of support behind him for that to happen. “I don’t think we can quite understand the level of interest and the stardom that these guys have,” Buttler said. “You see it around the IPL, you’re aware of it, but actually living that yourself… I think they say the Indian Test captain is like the third or fourth-most influential person in India, behind the Prime Minister etc. – so you really are put up on that pedestal.” “It’s going to be a huge job for him. He’s obviously captained two seasons of IPL cricket, which is a big, pressurised job and he’s sort of the prince. Kolhi is the king, Shubman is the prince: that’s the narrative that they spin out there, and I feel that he’s the coming man… Stepping into that No. 4, it’s big shoes, isn’t it? Coming behind Virat, and Sachin Tendulkar before that as well. That’s obviously a huge role,” he added.