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You know, when a fast bowler comes back after a series of five Test matches and then straightaway has to go into a one-day series with a three-day break, a T20 series with a one-day break, it is tough.
Ravi Shastri
You
Tough
Back
Three-Day
Know
Bowler
Matches
Test
Go
Five
After
Break
Then
Series
Fast
The classical art of spin bowling, how you should bowl in Test match cricket, is disappearing.
Ravi Shastri
Art
You
Cricket
Spin
Classical
Disappearing
Bowl
Bowling
Match
How
Test
Should
When you play the game, you want your mind clear. You want to be able to focus inwards without a care in the world for anything outside.
Ravi Shastri
You
Game
World
Care
Mind
Focus
Able
Outside
Clear
Without
Want
Anything
Your
Play
The boss is the captain on the cricket field. I am in charge of the coaching staff. That's put into place. My job is to oversee things and see things go all right. Who cares who's the boss? At the end of the day, you win and to hell with it, yaar.
Ravi Shastri
Day
You
I Am
Win
End Of The Day
Job
Field
Hell
Cares
Cricket
Charge
See
Boss
Put
Am
Go
Oversee
End
Staff
Place
Coaching
Coaching Staff
Who
Captain
Who Cares
Right
Things
I love coverage, bring it on, as simple as that.
Ravi Shastri
Love
Simple
I Love
Coverage
Bring
Between 50 overs and 20 overs, there is a big difference, because there is 30 extra overs of fielding and six extra overs to bowl, and that can take its toll.
Ravi Shastri
Big
Extra
Take
Between
Bowl
Because
Big Difference
Six
Difference
Toll
Virat Kohli and MS Dhoni, the respect they have for each other is unbelievable, so it makes my job in the dressing room so much easier.
Ravi Shastri
Respect
Job
Other
Easier
Unbelievable
Dressing
Dressing Room
Makes
Ms
Room
Much
Each
If you look at cricket per se, if you didn't have T20 cricket, Test cricket will die. People don't realise. You just play Test cricket, and don't play one-day cricket and T20 cricket, and speak to me after 10 years. The economics will just not allow the game to survive.
Ravi Shastri
Me
You
Game
People
Speak
Will
Economics
Cricket
Per
Allow
Look
Test
Years
Survive
Die
Just
After
Realise
To Survive
Play
A coach's role, effectively speaking, is to stay in the background and let the onus be on the players.
Ravi Shastri
Background
Stay
Effectively
Role
Coach
Speaking
Players
India has given too much emphasis on players' records than on the actual performance of the team.
Ravi Shastri
Too Much
Too
India
Given
Records
Emphasis
Performance
Than
Much
Team
Actual
Players
I don't want everyone toeing the same line. You have got to have discussions and someone might then think of a fresh strategy, which has to be encouraged.
Ravi Shastri
You
Strategy
Think
Everyone
Someone
Fresh
Got
Line
Encouraged
Discussions
Same
Want
Which
Might
Then
What my endeavour is to see a happy Indian team playing cricket.
Ravi Shastri
Happy
Cricket
Indian
See
Endeavour
Team
Playing
As long as we know the job we are doing and we are honest to our jobs, as long as support staff we are helping players channelise their energies in the right direction, we are not worried about what critics say.
Ravi Shastri
Job
Long
Our
Worried
Say
Jobs
Critics
About
Direction
Support
Know
Doing
Staff
Energies
Helping
Right
Players
Right Direction
Honest
The coach and support staff's role is to get the players in the most brilliant frame of mind to execute things and if done effectively, it brings enjoyment to the player's game.
Ravi Shastri
Game
Brilliant
Mind
Frame
Support
Most
Execute
Effectively
Role
Get
Done
Staff
Coach
Things
Enjoyment
Player
Players
Brings
I am a professional, I believe in work ethics, I believe in contracts.
Ravi Shastri
Work
I Am
Ethics
Believe
I Believe
I Believe In
Am
Contracts
Professional
Sometimes in cricket nothing is automatic; when automatic fails you need some fuel.
Ravi Shastri
You
Sometimes
Nothing
Cricket
Some
Fails
Automatic
Fuel
Need
There are a few people who are waiting to see the end of MS Dhoni. But great players like him decide their own future.
Ravi Shastri
Future
Great
Waiting
People
Few
Own
See
Like
Him
Ms
End
Few People
Decide
Who
Players
I focus on the present.
Ravi Shastri
Focus
Present
It's going to get harder and harder to find guys who will play for ten years in all formats of the game, and whoever does it, good luck to him - he'll be a great batsman or bowler.
Ravi Shastri
Good
Great
Game
Will
Luck
Good Luck
Find
Ten
Guys
Ten Years
He
Bowler
Him
Does
Years
Get
Going
Formats
Who
Whoever
Harder
Play
It is the cynicism that kills all the joy. I'm not that kind of a guy. I look at the glass half-full.
Ravi Shastri
Joy
Kind
Guy
Glass
Look
Cynicism
I have been manager, director, now I am head coach, and it's the same role. Absolutely the same role.
Ravi Shastri
Director
I Am
Absolutely
Head
Head Coach
Am
Been
Role
Same
Manager
Coach
Now
One-day cricket and T20s have vastly different identities and one cannot look at it through the mere lens of 'white-ball cricket.'
Ravi Shastri
Cricket
Vastly
Through
Mere
Look
Identities
Different
Cannot
Lens
Mahendra Singh Dhoni is the undisputed leader of the Indian cricket team.
Ravi Shastri
Leader
Cricket
Indian
Team
Individual don't matter, and we should all work in the best interest of Indian cricket. It should take the centre-stage.
Ravi Shastri
Work
Best
Matter
Cricket
Indian
Individual
Take
Interest
Should
It's always the captain's team and it is the leader who calls the shots.
Ravi Shastri
Leader
Calls
Always
Shots
Team
Who
Captain
Opening for the first time in Test cricket, I scored 128 against the likes of Sarfraz Nawaz and Imran Khan.
Ravi Shastri
Time
First
Cricket
Khan
Opening
Likes
First Time
Test
Against
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