Superb legspin bowler in 85-86 period, esp in Australia. Three good reports came out on the Tied Test at Chepauk - Mike Coward in "Cricket Beyond the Bazaar", Allan Border in "Beyond Ten Thousand" and V.Gangadhar in Readers Digest 1988 issue around September.Ībt L.Siva, there is a theory that he fell into drugs. His slide started in 89 - I think Shastri was just emotionally upset as the captaincy never came to him 89 onwards. JG, there was this Indore ODI v Pak(21/3/87) where Shastri made 52 hammering Qadir and Imran for multiple sixes. Shastri in 85-88 was like Klusener in 1999 - Very positive, attacking, exciting cricketer - right mix of aggression and caution. I thought he would become a world beater but he overworked on his technique like Manjrekar and became too cautious. There was an interview with Sandeep Patil too where he mentions his first delivery(debut) was a four off Imran.Īhhh, to be fair to shastri, he was one of the best allrounders in the world 85-87 stage. Every time shastri would leap out of the crease, we used to think that he is gonna smash it, but he would go to the pitch of the ball, promptly defend it and run back to his crease!!!Yes, I remember Binny explaining the outswinger and inswinger in the same program. The reason was shastri's frustrating efforts to do just the same against the leg spinner of all times Abdul Quadir at sharjah.
We had a hearty laugh when Shastri explained about need of footwork to loft the leg spinning delivery over the infield by advancing forward. L.Sivaramakrishnan introduced the leg spinner in the programme. I remember Anil Kumble explaining leg spinner, the googly and the top spinner, right from the seam position to the grip. Interesting feature about Thats cricket programme by Ravi shastri is that he used to explain nuances of a delivery.
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