Ravi Shastri has seen from up close most of the Indian players currently on the tour of Australia for the Border Gavaskar Trophy during his successful tenure as head coach, which included the historic maiden Test series triumph on Australian soil.
Shastri and Rahul Dravid, the last two men to sit in the chair of Team India's head coach, are probably the best placed besides their successor Gautam Gambhir to decide the 11 players most likely to fire as a unit and deliver a win in the opening Test of the BGT in Perth, beginning November 22.
