Shastri's stint with Indian team has been successful in last three years.
Team director-turned-head coach Ravi Shastri is playing the role for Team India since 2017 and it has been fruitful for them till now. The fact that India skipper Virat Kohli is comfortable with Shastri shows he gels up well with the big players.
Former Pakistan cricketer Basit Ali talked about Shastri being a vital part of India's success in the last few years. Not to forget, India managed to win their first-ever Test series in Australia which Shastri doesn't forget to boast about.
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Speaking on his YouTube video chat show ‘Basit Ali show’, Ali said, “I would highly rate Ravi Shastri among all the current coaches. If Andy Flower was coaching an international team right now, I would pick him, but he isn’t at the moment.”
“Ravi Shastri was such a big player. And his style of coaching is similar. I saw one of his press conferences and the way he replied back to the media - this is the role of the coach. To talk straightforwardly when someone is asking questions. A coach must also know how to give a shut-up call,” he further added.
Basit added having a good side doesn't make Shastri's job any easy. “To say that Ravi Shastri got a really strong team, hence his job is easier is not fair. A coach must also know how to tackle all his big players. In our team, we got Shoaib Akhtar, but there was no coach to tackle him. If someone had figured out how to tackle him, he would have been an even bigger player. This is the biggest task of coach,” he said.
After the World Cup in England last year, Shastri was reappointed as head coach for the period of September 2019 till the ICC T20 World Cup in 2021.