England captain Jos Buttler: 'I need time and experience'

Jos Buttler has called for time to develop experience as captain after England lost the deciding match of their one-day international series with India at Old Trafford on Sunday.

Hardik Pandya and Rishabh Pant excelled for India, leading them to a five-wicket win that sealed their overall 2-1 victory in the series.

With India chasing 260, England seamer Reece Topley followed up his 6-24 in the second ODI at Lord's by taking three wickets inside the first nine overs to leave the tourists reeling at 38-3. However, wicketkeeper Buttler was left ruing the missed opportunities that allowed India to take control of the game.

Buttler's opposite number Pant could have been stumped by Buttler off the bowling of Moeen Ali when he was only on 18 runs, and he went on to make England pay, finishing 125 not out to lead his team to victory.

Buttler, who was England's top-scorer with 60 off 80 balls as they were bowled out for 259, said: "If you give good players a chance they'll probably hurt you.

"We probably had half a chance, maybe, with Hardik Pandya down to the fine leg as well and if we took those chances we'd probably have had quite a good hold in the game with quite a long tail for India. But [with] the score we put up, we were going to have to take all our chances to have a chance of winning.

"It was fantastic to get those early wickets and we created two chances for the guys who really took the game away from us, so I think that's where we lost the game."

"I think we were trying to search for ways to create wickets. I think it's been a pretty tough schedule as well - I think Reece is just creaking a little bit, so I think we might have to look after him as we probably will all our players," Buttler said.

"He [Topley] has