Ravi Shastri

It was the morning of a match and Ravi Shastri got a ticking off from his mother. The party animal had got back home late the previous night, after one of the parties he was famous for attending, and Lakshmi Shastri was worried that her son was not in the best state to be playing a Ranji Trophy match. As it happened, the evening before had no bearing on what happened on the field. Shastri tore the Baroda attack to ribbons at the Wankhede Stadium, hitting the fastest first-class double century in history, including six sixes off an over from Tilak Raj.