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Ravi Shastri points out that India loves big records like hundreds and ten‑thousand runs. He says Test cricket needs five strong batsmen and that T20s are very different from one‑day games. He also praises Virat Kohli’s performance in Australia and calls MS Dhoni a living legend.

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With Virat Kohli, what you see is what you get.

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Sometimes in the subcontinent you just need five batsmen.

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You don't come to a cricket ground to draw a cricket match.

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The job satisfaction that an opener gets no other batsman gets.

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

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Aggressive cricket is a form of cricket where you play to win.

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

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We want Indian cricket to carry on.

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One-day cricket and T20s have vastly different identities and one cannot look at it through the mere lens of 'white-ball cricket.'

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Jadeja has been sent by N. Srinivasan to play cricket and then go back…to Dhoni.

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How do you pick players? When they are good, and Dhoni is the best limited-overs keeper in the country.

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I was a very determined cricketer. I treated the opening position as a challenge. Big names and tough attacks brought the best…

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Let me say this: MS Dhoni has earned the right to retire when he wants to.

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MS Dhoni is a massive influence on the team. He is a living legend in the dressing room and an ornament to…

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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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Virat Kohli and MS Dhoni, the respect they have for each other is unbelievable, so it makes my job in the dressing…

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We are a country obsessed by records. For us, hundreds, ten thousand runs, and large haul of wickets are more important than…

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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…

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Once you have a good bowling attack that can take 20 wickets anywhere, then no game is an away game. Every game…

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We all know the soil in western India has a reddish tinge. In cricketing parlance it means a ticket to party for…

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You know, when a fast bowler comes back after a series of five Test matches and then straightaway has to go into…

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As far as I am concerned, I have never seen any Indian batsman perform better than Virat on Australian soil keeping Sachin…

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Sometimes when you are playing non-stop international cricket in all formats - which was the case with Jadeja - you do well…

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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…

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The beauty of Test cricket is all about playing an opponent in their backyard or defending home turf under challenging conditions over…

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As a child I played cricket as a hobby. Once you started playing for your school, you became more ambitious. You reckoned…

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The classical art of spin bowling, how you should bowl in Test match cricket, is disappearing.

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When you are playing a Test match, you would like to be playing with your strongest side.

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Virat is everywhere. He is hands on, and very communicative. That's what you want in a captain.

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Don’t change the channel when Rohit Sharma walks out to bat, because by the time you change it back, he‘d be long…

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In local cricket, I scored big hundreds and picked wickets against good teams.

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Mahendra Singh Dhoni is the undisputed leader of the Indian cricket team.

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There are a few people who are waiting to see the end of MS Dhoni. But great players like him decide their…

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Dhoni is a superstar. He is one of our greatest cricketers. When you have a career as glorious as that, you become…

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When you compare the icons of the game, you have Sunil Gavaskar, Kapil Dev, Sachin Tendulkar and Dhoni in the same bracket.

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Individual don't matter, and we should all work in the best interest of Indian cricket. It should take the centre-stage.

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Opening for the first time in Test cricket, I scored 128 against the likes of Sarfraz Nawaz and Imran Khan.

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

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Sometimes in cricket nothing is automatic; when automatic fails you need some fuel.

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Virat is in your face, he wants to dominate and has a work ethic like no one else. Whether it comes to…

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With Virat Kohli, what you see is what you get.

Sometimes in the subcontinent you just need five batsmen.

As long as we win more than we lose, we are happy.

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…

I don't want everyone toeing the same line. You have got to have discussions and someone might then think of a fresh strategy, which…

As far as I am concerned, I have never seen any Indian batsman perform better than Virat on Australian soil keeping Sachin Tendulkar and…

You can't sideline players who can take a good helping for themselves in the Power Plays.

MS Dhoni is a massive influence on the team. He is a living legend in the dressing room and an ornament to the game.

One-day cricket and T20s have vastly different identities and one cannot look at it through the mere lens of 'white-ball cricket.'

Opening for the first time in Test cricket, I scored 128 against the likes of Sarfraz Nawaz and Imran Khan.

Once you have a good bowling attack that can take 20 wickets anywhere, then no game is an away game. Every game is a…