Ravi Shastri: With captain Virat Kohli's blessing

For the Indian cricket team coach, matching exploits of his predecessor Anil Kumble, won't be easy

Around the same time last year, Ravi Shastri was censured by Sourav Ganguly for failing to appear in person for the interview that was to determine the new head coach of the Indian cricket team. Expressing doubts over his seriousness, Ganguly, along with Sachin Tendulkar and VVS Laxman, decided to give the job to Anil Kumble instead. A year later, Shastri did much the same. Virender Sehwag was the only candidate who took the hassle of dragging himself to the interview room; Shastri’s rotund frame only emerged before the selection panel in what was most likely a computer screen, or