Stargazing - Ravi Shastri, 2021

296 Pages·3.879 MB·English

To the fans
CONTENTS
Introduction
GROWING UP INTO THE GAME
A League of His Own
Garfield Sobers
Play Hard, Play Fair
Ian Chappell
Born to Lead
Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi
Banter Off the Bat
Farokh Engineer
Nightmare for Batsmen
Dennis Lillee and Jeff Thomson
Spin Maestros
Erapalli Prasanna, Bishan Singh Bedi, Bhagwat Chandrasekhar
and Srinivasaraghavan Venkataraghavan
Learning in the Box
Richie Benaud, Greg Chappell, Barry Richards, Tony Greig and
Nasser Hussain
FRIENDS AND RIVALS
Captain of Captains
Clive Lloyd
Wrists of Steel
Gundappa Viswanath
Grit and Gumption
Mohinder Amarnath
Run Machine
Zaheer Abbas
My Mentor
Sunil Gavaskar
Kaptaan Khan
Imran Khan
Mr Perfection
Richard Hadlee
The King
Vivian Richards
Power and Panache
Gordon Greenidge
Glutton for Runs
Graham Gooch
In the Fast Lane
Michael Holding, Andy Roberts and Joel Garner
Ready for Battle
Javed Miandad
His Lordship
Dilip Vengsarkar
All-rounder Par Excellence
Ian Botham
Kapil Da Jawab Nahin!
Kapil Dev
Terminator
Malcolm Marshall
Never Say Die
Allan Border
Elegance at Play
David Gower
Prince among Batsmen
Martin Crowe
Man of Destiny
Arjuna Ranatunga
Straight Shooter
Dean Jones
Daredevil
Aravinda De Silva
Waz to My Shaz
Wasim Akram
Tough Cookie
Steve Waugh
Fast Friends
Curtly Ambrose and Courtney Walsh
Heart-throb of a Billion
Sachin Tendulkar
Thunderbolt Unleashed
Waqar Younis
Twinkling Footwork, Dazzling Strokes
Brian Lara
Supreme Soloist
Sanath Jayasuriya
Super Hit
Inzamam-ul-Haq
He Made Fielding Sexy
Jonty Rhodes
White Lightning
Allan Donald
King of Spin
Shane Warne
Indian Attack’s Lynchpin
Anil Kumble
FROM THE BOX
Master and Commander
Sourav Ganguly
Spin Wizard
Muttiah Muralitharan
No Escape for Batsmen
Glenn McGrath
Stallone Meets Schwarzenegger
Matthew Hayden
Fight to Win
Ricky Ponting
Heavyweight Hitter
Jacques Kallis
Mighty Wall
Rahul Dravid
Epic Chaser
V.V.S. Laxman
Style and Substance
Mahela Jayawardene
Never Back Down
Harbhajan Singh
Game Changer
Adam Gilchrist
All-shot Wonder
Kumar Sangakkara
Universe Boss
Chris Gayle
High Skills, Big Heart
Zaheer Khan
Demolition Man
Virender Sehwag
Sultans of Swing
James Anderson and Stuart Broad
Mr Sixer
Yuvraj Singh
Mr 360 Degrees
A.B. de Villiers
Ace of Pace
Dale Steyn
All-format Force
Hashim Amla
Great Career, Interrupted
Kevin Pietersen
BACK IN THE DRESSING ROOM, DIFFERENT AVATAR
Captain Coolest
Mahendra Singh Dhoni
Kane Is Able
Kane Williamson
Maverick
Steve Smith
Jaddu and the Ashtronaut
Ravichandran Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja
He’s Got the X-Factor!
Ben Stokes
Watch Out for Hitman
Rohit Sharma
Blood, Toil, Tears, Sweat
Virat Kohli
Photographic Inserts