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Shastri, back in the hot seat with a host of memories

Dileep Premachandran meets India’s new coach and discovers his second spell in the post won’t subdue Ravi Shastri

Any fears that the responsibility of being India’s men’s cricket coach would take the edge off Ravi Shastri’s withering wit are soon dispelled when he talks of one of his favourite innings – at the National Stadium in Karachi (January 1983) when he was all of 20 years old.
“I got a hundred against a fourpronged pace attack,” he tells you with a big grin. “Imran [Khan], Sarfraz [Nawaz], and the two umpires, Khizer Hayat and Ja...

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