Selector at the crease

Ravi Shastri offers entertaining cameos of cricketers he thinks were great

Stargazing: The Players in my Life

Authors: Ravi Shastri with Ayaz Memon

Publisher: HarperCollins

Pages: 296

Price: Rs 699

Last year’s lockdown saw many conceptions, including this book. Its birth, like so many of the author’s shots, is perfectly timed, coming out bang in the middle of an absorbing Test series against England, in England. It consists of very short assessments of the players Ravi Shastri thinks were great. Its pithiness makes it an excellent read.

From start to finish it will take just a couple of hours if you read it at one go. But that’s unlikely because it's actually a book for dipping