Ravi Shastri compares World Championship winning India to Virat Kohli’s Men in Blue

In 2018-19 after India registered their first-ever away Test series victory against Australia, coach Ravi Shastri stirred up the hornet’s nest by terming it a bigger victory than the 1983 world cup and 1985 World Championship.

However, during a live interaction on Facebook with Sony Sports recently, the coach said that the team which won the World Championship in 1985 could have any day given the current Virat Kohli-led side "a run for their money."

While replying to one of the questions, Shastri said, “Take any team that India puts up in white-ball cricket, the best of what it has to put out, the team of ’85 will give that team a run for their money."

Shastri emphasized that while winning the Test series in Australia for the first time was special when it came to white-ball cricket the victory in multi-nation tournament 85 was special.

“It is great to be part of those two teams, as a coach that series in Australia, is going to be very very special and hard to beat, because that team wasn’t beaten in 71 years by any Asian team.

Shastri, who was adjudged the player of the tournament in the World Championship, was the head coach of the team that beat Australia in the Test series under the leadership of Virat Kohli.

“There have been plenty who have gone there, tried their best and everyone knows how tough it is to beat Australia in Australia in Test match cricket, but in white ball cricket you can’t beat 1985 as a player. To win both is fantastic," the 57-year-old concluded.