India, Oct. 27 -- On Doordarshan's The Great Indian Cricket Show, former India wicketkeeper Parthiv Patel lit up the studio with a vivid memory from India's 2018 Johannesburg Test. What he described was a quintessential Ravi Shastri one-liner and humorous battle cry to motivate the dressing room.

Patel recalled how, before he walked out to open in the second innings at the Wanderers, the then head coach Shastri ditched technical talk for pure, punchy motivation, "Rabada ka kabada kar de." The line, delivered with Shastir's trademark swag, was meant to cut through the chaos of a troublesome pitch and South Africa's pace battery.

"Ravi Shastri sent me to open the Johannesburg Test match in the second innings. Usually, a coach would offer ...