Former Indian head coach Ravi Shastri started about when he became the men’s team coach and his thinking for success. The 59-year-old also believed in what England Cricket’s Managing Director Robert Key required to do to revive their test side’s fortunes.
The England & Wales Cricket Board selected former batter Robert Key as the Managing Director(MD) of men’s cricket on April 17. Key, who replaces Ashley Giles in a stable role, has crucial tasks in hand, starting with appointing the new Test skipper and head coach.
Now that the penny has dropped…thank you so much for making me part of this incredible journey. Memories that I will cherish and a team that I will continue to back till the time I’m able to watch the sport #TeamIndia @imVkohli @ImRo45 @ajinkyarahane88 🇮🇳🙏🏻
— Ravi Shastri (@RaviShastriOfc) November 13, 2021
Shastri added that as the Indian men’s cricket director, he held full control over who he wished to keep by his side. More significantly, he stressed the performer’s fitness levels better, urging them to be aggressive and give it back to the resistance.
Shastri spoke to The Guardian:
“When I was the director of the team, it was about diagnosing problems: I was asked to hire and fire, whoever I wanted, I could get in and whoever I didn’t could be shown the door. And it was also outlining how we want to play: to be aggressive and ruthless, to up the fitness levels, to get a group of fast bowlers to take 20 wickets overseas. And it was about attitude, especially when playing the Aussies. I told the boys if one single ‘f*ck you’ comes your way, give them three back: two in our language and one in theirs.”
Ravi Shastri, a member of India’s 1983 World Cup victory side, thinks the Key requirement is to realize in detail what England’s Test team necessarily. As a commentator, he believes the former English batter will have implicit where they have gone wrong.
Shastri added:
“Rob will have an adjustment period to understand the issues and will need to speak in detail with Joe Root for his experiences as Test captain. But in my 24 years of commentating, I did not miss a beat or a ball of Indian cricket. And he will have covered a huge amount too. So you’re not lagging behind by an inch, you’re abreast of what a team requires but also what other teams are doing.”
With the 59-year-old in responsibility, India transformed into one of the best Test teams of eternity, ruthless at home and registering wins abroad. They remained at the top of the Test rankings for the most and won 5-ICC maces.
Key, who has a difficult challenge ahead of him, could take inspiration from the Indian’s success.
“If their form is right, play them” – Ravi Shastri on James Anderson and Stuart Broad.
The Mumbai-born former players think James Anderson and Stuart Broad must perform if in form as experience cannot be compromised. Shastri admitted that teams often lose the plot in the face of building for the future by dominating experienced men.
He said:
“If their form is good, play them. There is no substitute for experience. Test cricket is the purest form of the game and if the guys are fit, hungry, you jolly well look in that direction. Every country makes this mistake, looking too far ahead. It’s too easy to look 100ft away and lose the plot by not backing the guys who have been there and done it.”
Sir Andrew Strauss has revealed why James Anderson and Stuart Broad aren't in England's Test squad for the tour of West Indies.
Read 👇#bbcricket #WIvENG
— Test Match Special (@bbctms) February 8, 2022
The ECB’s interim MD Andrew Strauss axed Anderson as well as Broad for the Test series in the West Indies. However, he urged the duo to prepare for the upcoming home summer.