Sydney
\nIndia coach Ravi Shastri on Monday used his tried and trusted ammunition to attack the critics, saying negative comments coming from miles away were blown away by the wind like, what else, a \u201ctracer bullet\u201d. Moments after India\u2019s maiden Test series triumph in Australia, Shastri hit back at the critics, including the legendry Sunil Gavaskar who had questioned selections and the training regimen of the team.<\/p>\n
\u201cI said in Melbourne I think I mentioned people taking pot shots and firing blanks. I wasn\u2019t joking there, because I knew how hard this team had worked. When you fire from there, by the time it crosses the southern hemisphere, it\u2019s blown away by the wind like a tracer bullet,\u201d said Shastri.
\nShastri lavished rich praise on his players after they wrote a new chapter in the Indian cricket history. \u201cThis is an Indian cricket team that will jump over a cliff to win a match for the country. And that\u2019s the determination, that\u2019s the ruthlessness, that\u2019s the mindset with which this team went to play in this series. Hats off to them for showing that courage.\u201d<\/p>\n
He was not done there, considering the enormity of the achievement at the Sydney Cricket Ground. \u201cToday I can say I am proud of my boys and I can also tell them one thing, this team now has an identity to look at any other Indian team from the past in the eye and say \u2018We play proper Test cricket. You did, we did too but without being intimidated\u2019,\u201d said Shastri.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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