5 points from Ravi Shastri’s book of cricket coaching

#2 No over-emphasis on the conditions

The Indian think-tanks in the past have made the mistake of overthinking the overseas cricket. Not that Shastri doesn’t value overseas cricket, but he doesn’t undermine home cricket because of it. For him, a victory at home and a victory overseas is in the same bracket.

Whenever he has spoken about India’s run in the 2017-18 season, he has mentioned all the series, starting from the Sri Lanka tour to the home series against Australia, New Zealand, and Sri Lanka, and then, of course, the historical South Africa tour as well. However, there hasn’t been any separate talk of the SA tour in particular and the fact that he doesn’t over-emphasize overseas cricket puts less pressure on the players when they go on abroad.