New Delhi, October 20: Former Indian all-rounder turned commentator Ravi Shastri has said that he would have done great job if he was offered the full-time captaincy.
Shastri, who led India to a victory against West Indies in the solitary Test in 1988, was considered as one of the shrewdest cricket brains around at that time.
But despite that one-off win, he was never considered for captaincy again. Shastri believed that he would have made a great captain if he had got the full-time captaincy.
“I would have done a good job for India if I had got it full time, let`s put it that way. It`s not my job to say I should be captain, that`s for the selectors”, Shastri told a cricket website in an exclusive interview.
He also said that he would have played for a win in every Test match. “I would have been ruthless. I would have played to win at all costs. It`s not about drawn games,” said the Mumbai cricketer, who was the pin-up boy of Indian cricket in eighties.
Shastri also scotched the rumors that his flashy image dented his chance of becoming Team India captain.
“I won every domestic title that existed in India as captain of Bombay. Sometimes captaincy falls in your lap and sometimes it doesn`t. I`m happy it came to me once in Test matches. It happened to be against West Indies – the best side I ever played against – and we beat them at home for the first time in 11 years,” said Shastri.
—Agencies