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Ravi Shastri
Indian
Coach
Born:
May 27
,
1962
Best
Cricket
Game
Job
Will
You
Sometimes it might be the junior-most player in the team who may come up with a strategy which we hadn't even thought of and we need to bring that to the table.
Ravi Shastri
Sometimes
Thought
Strategy
Table
Come
Up
May
Which
Might
Team
Who
Even
Player
Bring
Need
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
It's not that every time India play they will have their best team on the park because there are bound to be injuries and other factors.
Ravi Shastri
Time
Best
Will
Every
Other
Every Time
India
Park
Factors
Bound
Because
Team
Injuries
Play
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
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
Opening is about the mindset. You got to respect the new ball.
Ravi Shastri
You
Respect
Mindset
About
New
Opening
Ball
Got
We have to do what's best for the team, as simple as that.
Ravi Shastri
Best
Simple
Team
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
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
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
I have little patience or time for nonsense that's spread around.
Ravi Shastri
Time
Patience
Around
Spread
Nonsense
Little
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
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 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
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
An 'A' grade cricketer like Pujara should get a massive amount where he is not bothered whether he plays IPL or not.
Ravi Shastri
Bothered
He
Like
Massive
Get
Grade
Where
Whether
Should
Amount
Plays
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
I love coverage, bring it on, as simple as that.
Ravi Shastri
Love
Simple
I Love
Coverage
Bring
What my endeavour is to see a happy Indian team playing cricket.
Ravi Shastri
Happy
Cricket
Indian
See
Endeavour
Team
Playing
As a child I played cricket as a hobby. Once you started playing for your school, you became more ambitious. You reckoned you could play for the state. Then you started to think about the country. But it happened so quickly for me, I started playing for the school at 13, for Bombay at 17, and at 18 I was in the Indian side.
Ravi Shastri
Me
You
School
Country
Think
Cricket
Side
State
Once
Reckoned
Indian
About
More
Could
Became
Ambitious
Quickly
Child
Hobby
Happened
Then
Your
Bombay
Play
Played
Started
Playing
A few good words don't just make your day but they also give the sense of belonging and confidence to take the next big step forward.
Ravi Shastri
Good
Day
Confidence
Words
Big
Few
Sense
Give
Take
Step
Good Words
Step Forward
Also
Make
Just
Next
Your
Forward
Belonging
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
In a tournament like the World Cup, you have got to be on top of your game every game.
Ravi Shastri
You
Game
World
Every
Top
Tournament
Like
Got
Cup
Your
World Cup
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
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
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
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