Ravi Shastri Biryani Story : While the Indian cricket team is busy preparing for the Test series against England, on the other hand, Ravi Shastri is opening the secrets of the players of Team India before the start of the series. Ravi Shastri, along with Bharat Arun, has told an unheard story in which he told how Team India got a historic victory when Mohammed Shami was stopped from eating biryani. This incident is in the year 2018 when Team India won the Test match by 63 runs in the Johannesburg Test on the tour of South Africa. On the fourth day of the game, the team won this and before this victory, Mohammed Shami was stopped from eating biryani. Let us tell you what Shastri and Bharat Arun told.
Shami’s biryani was taken away in Johannesburg and then…
It was the last match of the Test series against South Africa. The hosts had won the first two matches and won the trophy. On the fourth day of the Johannesburg Test, South Africa was chasing a target of 223 runs with eight wickets and India was under threat of whitewash. By the afternoon lunch time, South Africa had reduced the target to 171 runs with seven wickets. Talking to Soni Sports, Ravi Shastri remembered the moment when he was passing by Shami and saw that there was a lot of biryani in Shami’s plate.
Shami’s anger drowned South Africa
Shastri said, ‘This was Johannesburg match. Last day. There was a lot of heat in that game. On the last day, he wanted 240 runs, only 100 runs left. He had eight wickets. It was afternoon and when I passed by Shami, there was a lot of biryani in his plate. Former bowling coach Bharat Arun revealed that Shastri then jokingly asked Shami if his hunger had calmed down after eating so much biryani. After this, an angry Shami turned down the biryani plate and said that he did not want it. Arun told that Shastri advised him to leave Shami alone and if you want to talk, then just say that he takes a wicket.
Shami said, ‘Take the plate. Do not want biryani, biryani went to hell. The match is over. Shami performed brilliantly. Arun told that after this he went to Shami and said, ‘Take the biryani, eat as much as you want to eat, this victory was the second Test victory in the Wanderers Stadium of India and the third Test on South African soil. Now Shami is not with Team India on England tour because he is not fully fit. Had Shami been in England, Team India’s hopes of victory would have been more. Well now in his absence, how Bumrah, Siraj, Krishna perform, this is a matter of view.
