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\"Shastri<\/p>\n

A tight-lipped Ravi Shastri after surgery \u00a9 AFP<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Commentator Ravi Shastri<\/a>\u2019s larynx snapped and fell out of his throat after the former all- rounder was about to say “gone to the boundary like a tracer bullet” for a record 3,892,564th to describe a Sachin Tendulkar<\/a> boundary. The incident occurred while Shastri was giving commentary during the post-lunch session on the second day of the ongoing Melbourne Test.<\/p>\n

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According to eye-witnesses, the larynx popped out of Shastri\u2019s throat and hurled itself into the crowd of spectators in the Don Bradman<\/a> stand, plaintively screaming, “Give me a break from this guy.” Fortunately, fellow commentator Ian Chappell<\/a> had the presence of mind to complete Shastri\u2019s sentence for the benefit of viewers even as a speechless and shocked Shastri was led away for medical treatment.<\/p>\n

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Sunil Gavaskar<\/a>, Shastri\u2019s colleague in many commentary boxes around the world, described it as a ‘healthy development for Test cricket\u2019.<\/p>\n

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“Even I found it tough to keep myself from nodding off when dealing with Shastri\u2019s bromides,” said Gavaskar, famed for his phenomenal powers of concentration during his playing days.<\/p>\n

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Melbourne-based world renowned ENT surgeon, Dr. Sudhakar Reddy<\/a>, later diagnosed Shastri to be a victim of ‘Acute Vocal Clicheitis\u2019, a condition induced by wear and tear of the vocal chords due to repeated use of particular phrases.<\/p>\n

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“10 years of clich\u00e9 ridden commentary delivered with minimum variation of pitch and tone has taken its toll on Shastri\u2019s larynx resulting in this tragedy,” opined Dr. Reddy.<\/p>\n

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Ravi\u2019s wife, Ritu Shastri<\/a> tearfully added, “I kept telling Ravi, ‘Darling, please keep mixing it up or you will end up a loser, but he would shut me up with ‘in the end, cricket is the winner\u2019. F*** man, never realised cliches can be so painful.”<\/p>\n

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Shastri was recuperating from surgery and had been strictly forbidden from mouthing clich\u00e9s for another six months, lest there be a recurrence of the traumatic episode. Unfortunately, Shastri couldn\u2019t resist saying “just what the doctor ordered” a few hours after surgery, resulting in another vocal burst!<\/p>\n

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The 1984 ‘Champion of Champions\u2019 has now retired from all forms of television-based commentary and is in talks with cricinfo.com to become a text-based commentator.<\/p>\n

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(Reproduced with permission from\u00a0http:\/\/www.theunrealtimes.com\/<\/a>. The UnReal Times is one of the top websites for satire, spoof, parody and humour in India<\/em>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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