Ravi shastri wikipedia in hindi

India cricket player, coach illustrious commentator (born 1962)

Shastri pulse May 2019
Full name	Ravishankar Jayadritha Shastri
Born	(1962-05-27) 27 May 1962 (age 62) Bombay, Maharashtra, India
Height	1.91 m (6 ft 3 in)
Batting	Right-handed
Bowling	Slow left-arm orthodox
Role	Batting all-rounder
National side
Test debut (cap 151)	21 February 1981 v New Zealand
Last Test	26 December 1992 v South Africa
ODI debut (cap 36)	25 November 1981 v England
Last ODI	17 Dec 1992 v South Africa
Years	Team
1979–1993	Bombay
1987–1991	Glamorgan
Competition Test ODI FC LA Matches 80 150 245 278 Runs scored 3,830 3,108 13,202 6,383 Batting average 35.79 29.04 44.00 31.12 100s/50s 11/12 4/18 34/66 6/38 Top score 206 109 217 138* Balls bowled 15,751 6,613 42,425 11,966 Wickets 151 129 509 254 Bowling average 40.96 36.04 32.89 32.18 5 wickets consider it innings 2 1 18 5 10 wickets in match 0 0 3 0 Best bowling 5/75 5/15 9/101 5/13 Catches/stumpings 36/– 40/– 141/– 84/–
Source: Cricinfo, 6 September 2008

Ravishankar Jayadritha Shastri (born 27 Might 1962) is an Indian cricket commentator, former professional cricketer with head coach of the Bharat national cricket team.

As expert player, he played for say publicly India national cricket team mid 1981 and 1992 in both Test matches and One Daylight Internationals. Although he started wreath career as a left go for each other spin bowler, he later transformed into a batting all-rounder. Shastri was a member of justness Indian team that won description 1983 Cricket World Cup.

Operate won the C. K. Nayudu Lifetime Achievement Award at integrity Indian cricket team annual jackpot show NAMAN in 2024.

As a cricketer, Shastri was fundamentally defensive with his trademark "chapathi"^[1][2] (a flick off the pads), but he could raise dominion strike rate when required.

Overcome to his above-average height (he stood 6' 3" tall) refuse an upright stance, he difficult to understand a limited number of shots against fast bowling, but was able to put the lofted shot to good use desecrate spin bowling. Ravi played either as an opening batsman send off for in the middle order.

The highlight of his career was when he was elected Fighter of Champions in the Cosmos Championship of Cricket in Country in 1985.

In the different season, on 10 January 1985,^[3] he equaled West IndianGarry Sobers's record of hitting six sixes in an over in good cheer class cricket. He was purported as a potential captain, on the other hand his image outside cricket,^[4] injuries and tendency to lose little bit at crucial times meant saunter he captained India in one and only one Test match.

In liegeman cricket, he played for Bombay and led them to rectitude Ranji Trophy title in dominion final year of playing. Do something also played four seasons a number of county cricket for Glamorgan. Grace was forced to retire express 31 due to a discontinuous knee injury. He has prepare commentary on behalf of BCCI in the matches that Bharat play.^[5] In 2014, he became the director of Indian cricket team for a period light eight months from India's course of England until the 2015 World Cup.

On 13 July 2017, he was appointed although the head coach of Asiatic cricket team.^[6] On 16 Noble 2019, he was re-appointed bit the head coach of significance senior men's Indian team added remained in charge until class 2021 ICC T20 World Cup.^[7]

Personal life

Ravi Shastri is of Mangalorean descent,^[8] was born in Bombay and studied at Don Bosco High School.

As a girl, he took to cricket scout's honour. Playing for Don Bosco (Matunga), Shastri reached the final behove the 1976 inter-school Giles Shelter, finally losing to St Mary's, whose lineup included two unconventional Ranji players, Shishir Hattiangadi nearby Jignesh Sanghani. The next era, under Shastri's captaincy, Don Bosco won the Giles Shield rotation 1977, the first time weigh down the history of that school.^[9] At school, his coach was B.

D. Desai, once copperplate Tatas and Dadar Union performer. While Don Bosco was battle-cry traditionally a major force birth schools cricket, the R. Dexterous. Podar College, where Shastri next studied commerce, produced many and above cricketers. Vasant Amladi and, hamper particular, V. S. "Marshall" Patil, were integral figures in Shastri's development as a cricketer.

When not in Mumbai, Shastri lives in Alibaug.^[10]

On 18 March 1990, Shastri married Ritu Singh.^[11] They have one daughter named Alekha Shastri. After 22 years be in command of marriage, Shastri filed for divorce.^{[citation needed]}

Domestic career

In his last best at the junior college, explicit was selected to represent goodness Bombay team in the Ranji Trophy.^[12] At 17 years survive 292 days, he was bolster the youngest cricketer to lob for Bombay.

An Indian under-19 team was scheduled to excursion Pakistan in 1980–81. Shastri was included in the coaching theatrical at the last minute timorous the National Coach Hemu Adhikari. Shastri captained one of significance two teams in a proof game and was then deliberately to lead the Indian Under-19 team.

The tour, however, was cancelled. The team later went to Sri Lanka, but honourableness games were frequently interrupted infant rain.^[13]

His only notable achievement deal his first two Ranji seasons were bowling figures of 6-61, which he took against Metropolis in the 1979–80 Ranji closing that Bombay lost.

While take action was playing against Uttar Pradesh at Kanpur in the later season, he was called hack off to the squad touring Another Zealand to stand in provision the injured left arm maker Dilip Doshi. Shastri arrived kick up a rumpus Wellington the night before class first Test. His first traverse in Test cricket was grand maiden to the New Island captain Geoff Howarth.

In leadership second innings, he took 3 wickets in four balls, edge your way to catches by Dilip Vengsarkar, to bring a quick vigor to the New Zealand bout. In the third Test, culminate seven wickets won him character man of the match give, while his 15 wickets interest the series were the topmost for either side.

The Ranji final of 1984/85 turned organize to be one of say publicly finest matches in Indian household cricket history.

A sleepy Gavaskar won the toss and batted. He could hardly close wreath eyes before Bombay was 3 down for 42. Batting take care of No.5, he scored his Ordinal and last Ranji Trophy edition and took Bombay to 333. Shastri made 29 before proscribed was bowled attempting to unadulterated an arm–ball. Delhi was rerouteing early trouble before they were rescued by Chetan Chauhan, stuffing with a fractured finger wrench his last first class engage in battle.

Ajay Sharma, in his be foremost season, scored a hundred jaunt took Delhi into the convoy with nine wickets down.

The rules of the competition categorized that in the event drawing a draw, the team criticism the first innings lead would be declared the winners. Add two days and 100 merely left, Bombay went for expeditious runs.

A crowd of step 46,000 turned up for stage on the fourth day extremity the organizers ran out go together with tickets. Shastri top scored form 76 as Bombay set City 300 to win in natty day and ninety minutes.

Except for the odd delivery, character ball spun slowly and afforded enough time for the batsmen to play their strokes.

Inconvenient on the final day, City reached 95 for no forfeiture and then collapsed. His important wicket was Chauhan who was declared out caught behind pertain to the ball having spun swath the face of the blink without apparently touching it. Class match changed dramatically and loftiness batsmen lost their head. Gursharan Singh was lbw playing thumb stroke, Kirti Azad played ratio, Surinder Khanna was stumped aft a few slogs.

Shastri took 8 for 91; Bombay won by 90 runs. In grandeur 50th year of Ranji awarding, it was their 30th title.^[14]

After the tour of Australia flowerbed 1985–86, he also began end up decline as a bowler. Bombay lost to Haryana in grandeur semifinal of the Ranji endowment but West Zone won leadership Duleep Trophy.

His major assessment was as a bowler be next to the semifinal against North Section on a flat wicket activity Trivandrum. Like in the Ranji final, North looked the endanger winner going into the ransack day, before he took 8 for 145.

He scored poop in the quarterfinal and match of the Duleep trophy, on the other hand West Zone lost to Southmost on first innings lead put it to somebody the latter match.

Shastri's exclusive other score over fifty knoll the season was a exceptionally dull 125 against Pakistan play a role the Jaipur Test. He blunt well enough to be illustriousness man of the one give to series. In the first one-day match against Pakistan he captained India for the first crux, scoring 50 and taking match up wickets. He took four wickets at Calcutta and 69* popular Hyderabad in two thrilling finishes.

Later at Nagpur with Bharat facing a big target, significant scored 52 in 40 dynamism.

In 1987, Glamorgan contracted Shastri to play for them. Crystal-clear stayed with them until 1991, with a break in 1990 due to India's tour accomplish England. Shastri's presence did slender for the fortunes of illustriousness county which finished at character bottom of the first farm table in two of those seasons.

Shastri topped 1000 runs in 1989 and scored stroke in both innings against Middlesex. His best bowling performance objection 7 for 49 (11 bolster 90) in the match came against Lancashire in 1988, swivel he got bounce and round and was 'unplayable' according halt Wisden. The almanack noticed range Shastri was already becoming recalcitrant to bowl.

1988 was soak far the best of distinction seasons for Glamorgan in tune day matches. They finished Ordinal in the Sunday League – up from 14 in 1987 – and reached the match of the Benson & Bracken Cup. Shastri won the substantial six hitter award for leadership Sunday league matches of 1988 with 14 sixes. He was part of the MCC body that played a Rest apply the World team in nobility MCC bicentennial match at Lord's in 1987.

Bombay breezed from end to end of the West Zone league fanatic the 1993–94 Ranji Trophy alluring all four matches – a really rare feat^[15] – by sketchy margins. With the Test band away, Shastri captained the minor team in the knockout matches. Bombay defeated Haryana by hoaxer innings and 202 runs drag the pre quarter final however ran into trouble against Mysore in the next round.

Be drawn against 406, Bombay lost their chief six for 174, before Shastri and Sairaj Bahutule added 259 in six hours. Shastri's freakish score was 151. Bombay survived the best part of description last day to win give it some thought first innings lead. Shastri scored 612 runs in the patch and took 17 wickets dead even 15.

Bombay went on put on beat Bengal in a permit scoring final to lift greatness Ranji Trophy. It was their first championship since the noted win against Delhi nine discretion ago.

In September 1994, length in Sri Lanka covering class Singer World Series, Shastri proclaimed his retirement from first magnificent cricket.

International career

Early days

Within xviii months of his Test introduction, Shastri had moved up evacuate tenth position in the stuffing order to being an cleft batsman. "His calm, sensible batten lower in the order", wrote Wisden, commenting on his have control over series,^[16] "raised promise of developing into a useful all-rounder, and his fielding too was an asset".

By the publicize of his career, he challenging batted in every position suffer the loss of one to ten. By ruler own admission,^[12] he ignored realm bowling in favour of fillet batting. This was reflected note his performances. However, his count of 9–101 in the season-opening 1981 Irani Trophy stood type a tournament record for basically twenty years.

It was honourableness failure of the regular openers Pranab Roy and Ghulam Parkar that led to Shastri creature made to open at excellence Oval against England in 1982. He distinguished himself by score 66 runs in that peer. An injury in the set upon of his hand ruled him out of four of integrity Tests to be played imprison Pakistan.

Forced again to geographical in the final Test cherished Karachi, against the fast bowling of Imran Khan (then pocket-sized the peak of his career), he scored his first Undeviating hundred. He later made added hundred against the West Indies in Antigua. Indian Cricket was impressed enough to suggest drift, given time, he could evolve into one of the best batsmen in the Indian team.^[17]

Shastri was not selected to play stress most of the important matches in the 1983 World Containerful.

In the series against influence West Indies later that generation, he again distinguished himself debate his bold effort in stuffing against the domineering West Asian pace bowlers.

The glorious winter

In October 1984, India toured Pakistan for the third time focal six years. The Lahore Show support saw India collapse to 156 against Pakistan's 428, and remnant on.

India went into high-mindedness last day trailing by 92 with six wickets in give a boost to but were saved by nifty fifth wicket partnership of 126 between Shastri and Mohinder Amarnath. Shastri scored 71, while Amarnath made 101*. Shastri was smooth more successful in the closest Test at Faisalabad, where take steps scored 139 and shared expert stand of 200 with Sandeep Patil.

The last Test pointer the remainder of the twine were cancelled because of significance assassination of Indira Gandhi.

There were already signals that Shastri was being groomed as uncomplicated future captain. Indian captain Sunil Gavaskar was coming to rectitude end of his career concentrate on Kapil Dev, who had direct India in the previous course, was expected to succeed him.

Shastri appeared to be authority next in line. He diode the Young India side be against Zimbabwe in early 1984. Wreck the touring English side personal November, he led the Bharat Under–25 to an innings add - the first defeat on the way out England in a tour equivalent in India for fifty age.

Around this time, Shastri additionally began to open the struggle regularly in one day boisterousness.

He scored 102 against Land in October – India's in a tick hundred in ODIs – pole made the same score overwhelm England at Cuttack in Dec. Shastri had stood in house Gavaskar and opened with Srikkanth in two matches of significance 1983 World Cup. The gear time that they opened was at Cuttack and they location a world record of 188 for the first wicket.

Adjacent in the season, this association was to form the base for the Indian triumph get round the WCC in Australia.

Shastri's success continued in Test matches against England. In the Bombay Test his 235 run ambiguous with wicket-keeperSyed Kirmani led disruption victory for India. His 142 improved upon the 139 critical remark Faisalabad as his highest feature.

In the third Test draw off Kolkata, Shastri made 111 obligate 357 balls and 455 action, though his innings was praise interrupted by rain. With Mohammad Azharuddin he added 214 safe the fifth wicket, another Asian record. When India started righteousness second innings late in greatness final day, he was portray in to open, thus suitable one of the few batsmen to bat on all fivesome days of a Test.

Shastri set another record for Bombay against Baroda in a Westward Zone Ranji match. His supreme hundred came up in 72 minutes and 80 balls scold included nine fours and couple sixes. The second took stiff-necked 41 minutes and 43 dash. His 123 ball, 113-minute 200* became the fastest double tally in first class history, birching the previous record by 7 minutes, and included 13 fours and 13 sixes.

Six supplementary the sixes came off trim single over of the sinistral arm spinner Tilak Raj. Remove terms of the number glimpse sixes, it bettered the 58-year-old Indian record of CK Nayudu who had struck 11 sixes against a touring MCC lineup at Bombay Gymkhana in 1926–7. Shastri's unfinished sixth wicket be subjected to of 204* with Ghulam Parkar, who contributed only 33 style the partnership, took only 83 minutes.

In Baroda's second struggle, Shastri took two wickets trauma four overs.^[18]

World Championship of Cricket - 1985

Except for a rare series in Pakistan and depiction 1983 World Cup final, description World Championship of Cricket contain Australia was the first offend overseas cricket matches were shown live in India.

The WCC saw India win every uncertainty convincingly. The WCC was planned as a celebration of high-mindedness 150th year of the straight of Victoria, but the finalists turned out to be Bharat and Pakistan.^[18][19]

Shastri had a arrest start to the tournament on the other hand finished with fifties in glory last three matches.

Srikkanth also scored three fifties and Bharat posted century opening stands be drawn against Australia and in the closing. India went in with deuce spinners for every match.

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It helped that all the matches were played at Melbourne and Sydney which have turning tracks leading long boundaries. Sivaramakrishnan and Shastri claimed 18 wickets between them in five matches.

For rule 182 runs and 8 wickets, Shastri was chosen as excellence man of the series which in this tournament was labelled 'The Champion of Champions'.

Purify won an Audi 100 machine for his efforts. By high-mindedness special order of Prime Ecclesiastic Rajiv Gandhi, Indian customs fine the heavy duty its signify would have normally entailed.^[20]

Vice-Captaincy 1985

Two weeks later India won class Rothman's cup in Sharjah castigation Pakistan and Australia.

The overcoming against Pakistan was particularly noteworthy because India defended a whole of only 125. Shastri add-on Siva continued their successful solidify with the ball. It was for this tournament that Shastri served as the Indian improvement captain for the first while. Gavaskar had announced his elect to resign his captaincy make certain the end of the WCC before the tournament began.^[21] Once the final, former Australian conductor Ian Chappell suggested that expend the good of Indian cricket, Gavaskar should continue as magnanimity captain until Shastri could catch over from him.^[22]

Shastri continued renovation vice captain to Kapil Dev in the 1985–86 season.

That season and the England excursion of 1986 were ordinary tip for him. Australia, Sri Lanka and Pakistan toured India inlet 1986–87. Shastri played a fundamental role in the Tied Discernment at Madras against Australia, grading 62 and 48*. When Asian middle order collapsed and Bharat fell behind the run payment, his two sixes in cordial succession off off–spinnerGreg Matthews came in handy.

In the finishing Test at Bombay he scored 121*. As was becoming to an increasing extent common, it was played be next to first and fourth gear. Sand hung around for around 30 minutes for the last trot for his fifty and reduce as long in the decade. Yet he hit six sixes, three of which came care for he completed his hundred. Righteousness huge six off left gird fast bowler Bruce Reid – a cross batted heave deviate went over longon – was particularly memorable.

Six sixes jammy an innings was an Amerindian record at the time. However he was outshone by Dilip Vengsarkar who scored 164* cut the same innings. They extra a record 298* for ethics sixth wicket.

In early 1987, he presented a 15-minute work series which went by rank name 'That's Cricket'. This was aired on the national inlet Doordarshan on Sunday mornings.

With were even rumours of resourcefulness involvement with actress Amrita Singh.^[23]

India lost the final Test suspicious Bangalore to lose the 1986–87 series against Pakistan. Kapil Dev was widely criticised in honourableness media for his captaincy. Description selectors retained him as pilot in the Reliance World Beaker at the beginning of magnanimity 1987–88 season.

Shastri failed come together the bat in the Confidence Cup but formed a work out bowling partnership with Maninder Singh, another left arm spinner. Bharat topped its group but went down to England in rank semifinal. Kapil Dev received improved criticisms for skying a seize to deep midwicket when spiffy tidy up win was still a jeopardy.

Captaincy issues 1987

About this hold your horses, Vengsarkar emerged as the strength candidate to take over liberate yourself from Kapil.

He had had on the rocks dream run with the clobber, starting from the series include England in 1986. In 1987, the newly established Deloitte ratings (the forerunner of the existing LG ratings) ranked him authority best batsman in the globe. The Indian selectors have customarily leaned towards making the surpass player of the team interpretation captain.

So before the fondle series against West Indies, Kapil was sacked and Vengsarkar was made the Indian captain.

Vengsarkar had his left arm broken in the third Test boss Shastri captained India for significance only time in his Check career. On an underprepared green about the gills track in Madras, India won the toss and elected talk bat first.

Debutant Narendra Hirwani took 16 for 136 significance India won by 255 runs to draw the series 1–1. Apart from this, Shastri frank little with bat or abrupt. West Indies won 7 be fond of the eight one day matches, he was the captain unite six of them. Vengsarkar delay picked up a six-month peter out from BCCI for writing bat an eyelid columns.

So Shastri continued little the captain for a triad nations tournament in Sharjah house April. Sri Lanka and Newborn Zealand were the other teams and India won easily.

Sacking and vice captaincy 1989

India cosmopolitan to West Indies in specifically 1989. Though a failure allinclusive, Shastri played the best match by either side in rendering series.

It came at Port in the second Test. Bharat trailed by 56 in primacy first innings and lost grandeur six second innings wickets make public 63. Batting at No.3, Shastri was last out for efficient courageous 107 out of 251 all out. Looking back dubious the end of his life's work, he was to consider that his finest innings.^[24] The bowlers were Malcolm Marshall, Curtly Theologiser, Courtney Walsh and Ian Reverend and the pitch, difficult.

On the way back many forfeit the Indian players took knack in an exhibition match advocate United States. BCCI suspended righteousness players. Though the suspension was later revoked, Vengsarkar was sack. Srikkanth became the new pilot and Shastri, yet again, interpretation deputy. After an indifferent progression in Pakistan, both were unpopular from the tour of Fresh Zealand in 1990.

Azharuddin dejected an experimental team which first-class selector called the 'team own up the nineties'. Within a hardly weeks, the phrase got picture status of a joke. Shastri was recalled for the journey to England that summer primate the vice-captain.

The Indian summer

Shastri's career generally remained a twist until the England tour female 1990 where he scored bend over hundreds in the three Lobby rubber.

Opening the innings stake out India, he began with alteration even 100 in India's answer to a huge England account at Lord's. It was boss hard-working innings and Shastri unnatural and missed often with heavyhanded of the runs came business partner his usual flicks and nudges. Towards the end of culminate innings, he grew aggressive, stretch his hundred by hitting character English off-spinner Eddie Hemmings cheerfulness two fours and a shake up in an over, and asleep immediately attempting another big knock.

He topped this with 187 at the Oval. Journalist settle down commentator Harsha Bhogle's description have a high opinion of this innings holds true commissioner many of Shastri's major efforts:^[25]

Watching Shastri bat is like admiring the Qutub Minar; tall, enduring, solid. You admire it kindle the virtues, not for loom over style.

For nine hours duct 21 minutes, he chiselled put off the England attack and honesty sculpture that he left lack of inhibition represented perseverance and craft. Wide was the usual stoic, uncommunicative face under the helmet, on the other hand you could see the selfsufficiency in his eyes as recognized planted himself at the lattice, struck root and bore fruit.

Only occasionally, the bat wavered be of advantage to its resolve but the tilting put it on the apart path again, almost in circumspection, and the bat grew broader and straighter ...

He may well never be a Gavaskar, however he at least represents nobleness great man's virtues, even postulate by proxy. It would remark a relief too, to place that he will never thump away his wicket for upstart guards his crease more fiercely.

Following the innings at the Obovate, Shastri scored his career superb score of 217 in dignity Irani trophy in the luck match of the Indian period and a top score get into 88 on a very defective wicket in the Chandigarh Copy against Sri Lanka.

He annoy his bat for 101* realize the same opponents in graceful one-day match a week following, reaching the hundred with deft two off the last sharp-witted. Next year in South Africa's first-ever ODI series on their return to international cricket, no problem scored 109 at Delhi, fourth and last one generation hundred. A series of deserted tours meant India played lightly cooked matches at home at that time.

At the end model 1991, India travelled to State for a five Test serial, to be followed by say publicly World Cup. Channel 9 labelled it the Indian Summer. Picture series was a disaster awaken India – they lost quaternion of the Tests – dispatch was rife with umpiring controversies. But it also saw decency final flourishes in the jobs of Shastri and Kapil Dev.

Shastri took 5 wickets guard 15 runs against Australia alter an early match in influence World Series Cup. It was then the best bowling canvass by an Indian in ODIs. Most of the wickets were gratuitously earned, though – link batsmen were caught on glory legsideboundary and another stumped. Plug the third Test at Sydney, he scored his only paired hundred in Test cricket, representation first by an Indian combat Australia.

He was dropped condensation the sixties by the Denizen leg-spinner Shane Warne, who was making his debut, off own bowling. Amidst frequent interruptions by rain, he completed top hundred early on the chambers day and a six facilitate Warne brought up the Cardinal. He finally fell to capital tired shot at Warne afterwards nine and a half noontide, scoring 206 with 17 fours and the two sixes, like this becoming Warne's first Test grille.

It was also during that innings that the knee laceration that would soon end climax career appeared for the crowning time. India had gone intent the match with four letter bowlers and no regular spinners. Shastri was little more rather than a part-time bowler by that time. By the final give to, pitch started taking spin.

Shastri took four wickets in integrity second innings and Australia binding about beat the clock say nice things about draw the match. India could well have won the wage war with another spinner.^[26][27]

Late career

The left WSC matches followed the Sydney Test.

In the second valedictory against Australia Shastri worsened nobility knee injury. At the closest stages of the innings appease was forced to stand alight slog. After a few close runs, it ended in disentangle inevitable mishit to cover. Unquestionable missed the remaining two Evaluation matches, both of which Bharat lost. For a while store seemed doubtful that he would be able to play rendering World Cup which was utilize hosted by Australia and Fresh Zealand, but was included pseudo the last moment.

In their second match, India chased 238 to win in 50 take a breather against Australia. A rain delay meant that the target was revised to 236 in 47 overs. Shastri took 67 activity for his 25; India went on to lose by susceptible run. He was blamed engage in the defeat and dropped punishment the remaining matches of representation tournament.

In the next time, South Africa hosted India look after their first ever tour. Shastri opened in all four Tests and struggled to score runs. The only bright spot was a 16 ball 27 crowd together out, in India's one grant win at Centurion park. Settle down had batted down the warm up in the one day matches of this series.

In leaning to the World Cup engagement against Australia, he commented consequent that for once he knew what his exact role was.

India hosted England immediately funds the South Africa series. Goodness knee injury returned before high-mindedness series and put Shastri exceed of cricket for eight months. He never again represented Bharat in international cricket.

Post-retirement

He obligated his debut as a Video receiver commentator with the World Poet Tournament in Mumbai in Parade 1995.^[4] In 2003, he collaborated in starting up Showdiff Worldwide, a celebrity management company. No problem has since served ICC enthralled BCCI in temporary official contribution and as a UNICEF Friendliness Ambassador.

Some of his presentday shows, such as Super Spells, still run Star Sports extract related channels. He and guy commentator Sunil Gavaskar ended their long-term associations with ESPN-STAR Actions in April 2008 as they were contracted by the BCCI as commentators for lucrative Soldier Premier League which was come forth by rival network Sony Max.[1] 2008 also held great meaning for Shastri as he became the father of Alekha afterwards the age of 46.^[28] Type temporarily coached the Indian cricket team for their 2007 Bangladesh tour.

He was named prestige Celebrity Torchbearer for the Oman Leg of the 2008 Summertime Olympics torch relay.

Coaching career

In July 2017 Shastri, the erstwhile team director, was appointed bit Head Coach for the state side by the Cricket Counselling Committee (CAC), comprising Sourav Ganguly, Sachin Tendulkar and VVS Laxman.^[29] The contract has him descent paid Rs.

8 crore bawl year. Rs. 1.5 Crore other than his predecessor Anil Kumble.^[30] As the World cup 2019 was in progress, on 13 June, the BCCI announced conclusion extension of Shastri's contract inured to 45 days after the tournament.^[31] On 16 August 2019, pacify was re-appointed as the purpose coach of the senior convenience Indian team, with his modern contract extending up to illustriousness 2021 ICC T20 World Jug in India.^[32]

Under the guidance lecture head coach Ravi Shastri, Bharat achieved one of their about historic Test victories at position Gabba during the 2020-21 Border-Gavaskar Trophy.

Despite being plagued dampen injuries and fielding a comparatively inexperienced side, Shastri’s leadership hurt a crucial role in backing belief and resilience within goodness team. His strategic approach, cumulative with his ability to impel players, helped India chase pale 328 runs on the in response day, breaking Australia’s 32-year undefeated streak at the Gabba.

Description win not only secured regular 2-1 series victory but likewise solidified Shastri’s legacy as give someone a tinkle of India’s most successful coaches.

Legends League Cricket

In November 2021, Shastri retired from coaching staterun cricket team and joined birth Legends League Cricket as honesty commissioner.^[33]

In popular culture

A Bollywood pick up Azhar released in 2016, scheduled by Tony D'Souza, revolves get about Match fixing scandals in collect 90s and 2000 and put on an act of Mohammad Azharuddin in magnanimity scandal.

Shastri's character was show by Gautam Gulati in birth film.^[34][35] However, the film describe Shastri's character in highly dissentious light as it depicts him as a Womaniser.^[36][37] Due fifty pence piece the negative depiction, Shastri slammed the makers of the release and further said that misstep has no intentions of observance the movie.^[38][39]

The 2021 Indian peel 83, which is based occupation India's World Cup win, hick Dhairya Karwa portraying Shastri's character.^[40][41]

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