Australia captain Tim Paine started a debate on social media when he said that England’s Jos Buttler is the best white-ball wicketkeeper batsman in the world, ahead of even MS Dhoni.

Paine was referring to the Buttler’s superb 110 not out that sealed a thrilling one-wicket win and completed their first 5-0 series sweep of Australia in any format. Set just 206 to win, England slumped to 195/9, but Buttler took the team home in the dying moments, in a manner reminiscent to ‘Captain Cool’ Dhoni in chases.

“He’s good, he’s very good,” Paine, a keeper-batsman himself, said of Buttler. “Right now, at the moment, he’d have to be the best white-ball wicket-keeper batsman in the world. I don’t think there’s too many guys to challenge him. MS Dhoni is pretty good, but right at this moment, Jos is at the absolute peak of his powers. He understands his one-day game so well and knows his strengths inside out and just doesn’t go away from him.

In fact, Butter himself credited Dhoni with helping him maintain calm. “When you’re out there at least you can do something about it. I was just trying to soak up the pressure and imagine what MS Dhoni would do.”

However, Paine’s remarks were not so well received on social media. Many Indians on Twitter didn’t take very kindly to Paine’s words, and sought to remind him of his own place in the keeper-batsman’s hierarchy

But there was some who defended him as well.

And a timely reminder

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