Gautam Gambhir bats for Jos Buttler's appointment as Rajasthan Royals captain in IPL 2021

Former Indian opener Gautam Gambhir has backed English wicket-keeper batsman Jos Buttler to be Steve Smith's successor after Australian batting mainstay was released by former champions Rajasthan Royals on Wednesday. 

Smith who had captained inaugural edition's champions last season could t do anything exceptional as RR bagged wooden spoon. He had a decent outing with bat as well by managing to score 311 runs in all 14 matches that he got to feature in.

'He is one player': Gautam Gambhir

Meanwhile, Royals have appointed Sanju Samson as Smith's successor and he will be leading franchise in 2021 season. However, 2011 World Cup winner reckons that it is a bit too early to hand over captaincy reigns to Kerala wicket-keeper batsman.

“According to me, it’s a bit early to give captaincy to Sanju Samson. I would have appointed Jos Buttler as Rajasthan Royals captain. He is one player who will play in all 14 matches. Samson has recently played for India. He would be under pressure to cement his place in side,” said Gambhir while speaking on Star Sports. 

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Rajasthan in Dream11 IPL 2020

inaugural edition's champions seemed to have got off to a perfect start after registering two successive wins against rrn rivals Punjab and Chennai. However, y ran out of fire & brimstone after that and went on to lose a few crucial encounters. 

Towards end of ir campaign, ace all-rounder Ben Stokes played a couple of crucial kcks as former champions mand to keep ir tournament hopes alive. neless, a huge 59-run loss against two-time winners Kolkata in ir last league match kcked m out of this year's competition.

2008 winners finished mega event as wooden-spooners with just 12 points from 14 matches and a much inferior net run-rate than or teams did t help ir cause eir. 

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