Ravishankar Jayadritha Shastri was born on 27 May 1962 and is the former head coach of the India national cricket team, a cricket commentator and former captain of Indian Cricket Team.
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57 Facts About Ravi Shastri
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Ravi Shastri played either as an opening batsman or in the middle order.
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Ravi Shastri was regarded as a potential captain, but his image outside cricket, injuries and tendency to lose form at crucial times meant that he captained India in only one Test match.
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Ravi Shastri was forced to retire aged 31 due to a recurring knee injury.
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Ravi Shastri has done commentary on behalf of BCCI in the matches that India play.
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Ravi Shastri is of Marathi-Mangalorean descent, was born in Bombay and studied at Don Bosco High School.
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Ravi Shastri was included in the coaching camp at the last minute by the National Coach Hemu Adhikari.
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Ravi Shastri captained one of the two teams in a trial game and was then asked to lead the Indian Under-19 team.
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Ravi Shastri's first over in Test cricket was a maiden to the New Zealand captain Geoff Howarth.
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Ravi Shastri made 29 before he was bowled attempting to cut an arm–ball.
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Ravi Shastri top scored with 76 as Bombay set Delhi 300 to win in a day and ninety minutes.
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Ravi Shastri scored hundreds in the quarterfinal and semifinal of the Duleep trophy, but West Zone lost to South on first innings lead in the latter match.
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Ravi Shastri did well enough to be the man of the one day series.
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Ravi Shastri took four wickets at Calcutta and 69* at Hyderabad in two thrilling finishes.
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Ravi Shastri stayed with them until 1991, with a break in 1990 due to India's tour of England.
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Ravi Shastri's presence did little for the fortunes of the county which finished at the bottom of the first class table in two of those seasons.
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Ravi Shastri topped 1000 runs in 1989 and scored hundreds in both innings against Middlesex.
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Ravi Shastri won the leading six hitter award for the Sunday league matches of 1988 with 14 sixes.
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Ravi Shastri was part of the MCC team that played a Rest of the World team in the MCC bicentennial match at Lord's in 1987.
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Ravi Shastri scored 612 runs in the season and took 17 wickets at 15.
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Ravi Shastri distinguished himself by scoring 66 runs in that match.
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Ravi Shastri later made another hundred against the West Indies in Antigua.
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Ravi Shastri was not selected to play in most of the important matches in the 1983 World Cup.
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Ravi Shastri was even more successful in the next Test at Faisalabad, where he scored 139 and shared a stand of 200 with Sandeep Patil.
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Around this time, Ravi Shastri began to open the innings regularly in one day games.
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Ravi Shastri had stood in for Gavaskar and opened with Srikkanth in two matches of the 1983 World Cup.
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Ravi Shastri's 142 improved upon the 139 at Faisalabad as his highest score.
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Ravi Shastri set another record for Bombay against Baroda in a West Zone Ranji match.
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Ravi Shastri had a slow start to the tournament but finished with fifties in the last three matches.
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Ravi Shastri hung around for around 30 minutes for the last run for his fifty and twice as long in the nineties.
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Ravi Shastri failed with the bat in the Reliance Cup but formed a successful bowling partnership with Maninder Singh, another left arm spinner.
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Ravi Shastri had had a dream run with the bat, starting from the series in England in 1986.
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Vengsarkar had his left arm fractured in the third Test and Ravi Shastri captained India for the only time in his Test career.
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Batting at No 3, Ravi Shastri was last out for a courageous 107 out of 251 all out.
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Ravi Shastri was recalled for the tour to England that summer as the vice-captain.
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Ravi Shastri carried his bat for 101* against the same opponents in a one-day match a week later, reaching the hundred with a two off the last ball.
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Ravi Shastri took 5 wickets for 15 runs against Australia in an early match in the World Series Cup.
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Ravi Shastri was dropped in the sixties by the Australian leg-spinner Shane Warne, who was making his debut, off his own bowling.
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Ravi Shastri finally fell to a tired shot at Warne after nine and a half hours, scoring 206 with 17 fours and the two sixes, thus becoming Warne's first Test wicket.
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Ravi Shastri was little more than a part-time bowler by this time.
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Ravi Shastri took four wickets in the second innings and Australia just about beat the clock to draw the match.
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Ravi Shastri missed the remaining two Test matches, both of which India lost.
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Ravi Shastri took 67 balls for his 25; India went on to lose by one run.
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Ravi Shastri was blamed for the defeat and dropped from the remaining matches of the tournament.
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Ravi Shastri opened in all four Tests and struggled to score runs.
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Ravi Shastri had batted down the order in the one day matches of this series.
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Ravi Shastri made his debut as a TV commentator with the World Masters Tournament in Mumbai in March 1995.
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Ravi Shastri has since served ICC and BCCI in temporary official capacities and as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador.
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Ravi Shastri temporarily coached the Indian cricket team for their 2007 Bangladesh tour.
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Ravi Shastri was named the Celebrity Torchbearer for the Oman Leg of the 2008 Summer Olympics torch relay.
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Ravi Shastri's character was portrayed by Gautam Gulati in the film.
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