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September 20, 2021 India

We have slowly and unexpectedly come to like Ravi Shastri very much

2 minute read Once upon a time, we didn’t much care for Ravi Shastri. Now we do. And it isn’t just his habit of wearing the worst sunglasses in the entire galaxy. As a commentator, Shastri was terrible. A relentless purveyor of booming cliché, he’d have been easy to ignore if he hadn’t

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September 12, 2014 Pakistan

Vent your feelings about Ravi Shastri

< 1 minute read In a recent comment, Bert revealed that he had something of earth-shattering importance to say about Ravi Shastri arising from this week’s Cricket Badger (sign up here). Unfortunately, he didn’t have a place to say it. Let this be that place. It also occurred to us that many of you

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