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Ravi Shastri offers entertaining cameos of cricketers he thinks were great

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(Book Cover) Stargazing: The Players in my Life

TCA Srinivasa Raghavan
Stargazing: The Players in my Life
Authors: Ravi Shastri with Ayaz Memon
Publisher: HarperCollins
Pages: 296
Price: Rs 699

Last year’s lockdown saw many conceptions, including this book. Its birth, like so many of the author’s shots, is perfectly timed, coming out bang in the middle of an absorbing Test series against England, in England. It consists of very short assessments of the players Ravi Shastri thinks were great. Its pithiness makes it an excellent read.

From start to finish it will take just a couple of hours if you read it at one go. But that’s unlikely because it's actually a book for dipping