Wearing a Proline tshirt from the 80s and cool shades even inside the room, Ravi Shastri walks in.
Sharad Pawar exults: "Perfect". Vengsarkar smiles and motions for Shastri to sit.
Shastri- "I have always wanted to give back to Indian cricket if not for anything but for providing me an endless supply of star-struck girls. You all have heard my unbiased and erudite commentary, where I have always railed against regionalism in Indian cricket, which (looking at Pawar) should convince you that I am your man. I have the unique experience of having being boo-ed at every cricket stadium in the country when I was a player so much so that "Gali gali main shor hain, Rajiv Gandhi chor hain" and "Shastri hai hai" are now considered to be the two defining slogans of the 80s."
Vengsarkar asks- "How does that help you in being Indias coach?"
Shastri: "Simple. I am impervious to criticism.I also propose that we take Venkatesh Prasad as bowling coach because he is Indian, because he can help both spinners as well as pacers as he himself was neither and because he really wants the job, having been lobbying for it for many years, on television channels, newspapers and to anyone who will listen. To me that desperation counts for more than the skills of a Fannie De Villiers or Alan Donald."
