IND vs AUS: Former Indian Bowling Coach Bharat Arun Reveals How He & Ravi Shastri Helped Mohammed Shami In Tough Phase

Indian Cricket Team right-arm speedster Mohammed Shami has been on a roll for the last couple of years in the Test format. The fast bowler has rediscovered his mojo. In the 1st Test match against Australia, the pacer took 3 wickets and bowled quite an immaculate line & length and didn’t give ample room to the batters.

We should not forget that Shami played a handy knock of 37 runs in 47 balls where he struck 2 fours & 3 sixes in the 1st innings which took India’s lead to 223 runs and gave the hosts a huge advantage. India’s lower-middle order made a massive difference in the Test match where they frustrate the bowlers.

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Bharat Arun on Mohammed Shami

Former Indian Bowling Coach Bharat Arun was having an interaction with Cricbuzz and was asked about Mohammed Shami.

“Just before the 2018 tour of England, we had a fitness test and Shami had failed it. He lost his place in the Indian team. He called me and said he wanted to have a word with me. So I invited him to my room; he was going through a personal turmoil. His fitness was affected, mentally he was gone.” said Bharat Arun.

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“He came to me and said ‘I am very angry and I want to quit cricket’. I immediately took Shami to meet Ravi Shastri. We both went up to his room and I said ‘Ravi, Shami wants to say something’. Ravi asked what it was and Shami told him the same thing that ‘I don’t want to play cricket’. Both of us asked ‘What will you do if not play cricket?’ What else do you know? You know how to bowl when given the ball.” he added.

Ravi Shastri & Bharat Arun on Mohammed Shami

Ravi Shastri, the then Head Coach of India made a huge statement about Mohammed Shami.

“It’s good that you’re angry. This is the best thing that has happened to you because you have a ball in hand. Your fitness is poor. Whatever anger it is that you have, take it out on your body. We are going to send you to National Cricket Academy and want you to go there for 4 weeks and stay there. You will not go home, and only head to NCA.” said Ravi Shastri.

“It suited Shami also because he had a problem going to Kolkata then so he spent 5 weeks at the NCA. I still remember the call he made and told me ‘Sir, I have become like a stallion. Make me run as much as you want’. The 5 weeks that he spent there, he realised what working on fitness can do to him,” said Bharat Arun.

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