Ravi Shastri

Ravishankar ("Ravi") Jayadritha Shastri (born 1962-05-27 in Mumbai (Bombay), India) is a former Indian cricketer. He was an all–rounder who batted right–handed and bowled left arm spin. His international career started when he was 18 years old and lasted 12 years. He started his career purely as a bowler but gradually became more of a batsman who could bowl.

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• The crowd for the fourth day of the 1984–85 Ranji final was possibly the biggest ever in a domestic match in India and has been exceeded only in Australia on a few occasions. According to Sportsweek {{ref|Sw1}} it was 'more than 40,000' while Indian Cricket 1985{{ref|IC85}} says that it was about 46,000.
• Raju Bharatan{{ref|IC02}} insists that Shastri's TV debut was in the World Masters. But when he declared his retirement in 1994 Shastri was in Sri Lanka on some media capacity. The exact nature of this is not known. An article available online{{ref|cnext}} indicates that he was already a television commentator then.