Five cricket commentators and their favourite phrases

#2 Ravi Shastri – “That went like a tracer bullet!”

Ravi Shastri has a love for tracer bullets unmatched by anyone else

Not all catchphrases in commentary have acquired the near-divine status of Benaud’s. Former Indian international Ravi Shastri is one of the most recognisable voices in the game today, but his dramatic, weighty utterances delivered in a booming voice have been light-heartedly been lampooned and poked fun at. It seems that all deliveries struck to the fence in Shastri’s world travel at the speed of a tracer bullet – with no exceptions.

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Perhaps it is about time we added ‘tracer bullet’ as a measure of speed to the International System of Units.