Ravi Shastri Quotes

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Ravi Shastri

Profession : Coach

Birth : May 27, 1962

In a tournament like the World Cup, you have got to be on top of your game every game.

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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.

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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.

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I firmly believe Test series should never be two Test matches, three is enough.

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I believe that tours should be only three Tests. With the amount of these things that is taking place, you will find that once you go for five-Test match series, 80-90% of the times the home team will win and you will see teams going straight down after the third match.

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If I have done a competent job, I should be respected for my competency.

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We want Indian cricket to carry on.

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Sometimes in the subcontinent you just need five batsmen.

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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.

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My job is to do exactly that with every player - to put him in a frame of mind where he is thinking only about his role and he is thinking about the team he is playing for and, of course, the opposition which we always respect.

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I like honeymoons. The more the merrier.

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I am a professional, I believe in work ethics, I believe in contracts.

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I focus on the present.

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It's important to have the right mix of experience and youth.

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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.

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The grade contracts of a Test player should be the highest.

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An 'A' grade cricketer like Pujara should get a massive amount where he is not bothered whether he plays IPL or not.

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What my endeavour is to see a happy Indian team playing cricket.

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I never want to shy away from a challenge.

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You have to look at youth in whatever you do, in whatever walk of life at some stage.

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