Fearless cricket is Ravi Shastri's mantra

Having achieved considerable amount of success in limited overs cricket, Ravi Shastri now wants India to become consistent in the red ball format

Head coach Ravi Shastri is all set with his formula to win the forthcoming Test series in England: "Fearless cricket. Trust your instincts. Play your natural game. Results will happen. We will have some fun. We are aggressive. We play to win. Even this series we are playing to win," he said in an interview to ESPNcricinfo yesterday.

"We are not here to draw games or fill in the numbers. We play every game to win and take the game forward. And if in trying to win we lose a game, tough luck. As long as we win more than we lose, we are happy," he said.

Having achieved considerable amount of success in limited overs cricket, Shastri now wants India to become consistent in the red ball format. "We have done exceptionally well in white-ball cricket. We showed some very good signs in South Africa as far as the red ball is concerned. We want to carry that forward. The challenge for us is to be consistent in the red-ball format overseas," he said.

Shastri was part of the 1986 Indian team which won a series in England. He was also part of the Indian squad in 1982 and 1990. He is determined to make India a powerful side while touring: "We believe we have the potential to be one of the best travelling teams. At the moment, there is no side in the world that travels properly. You can see what is happening to South Africa in Sri Lanka. We know our scorelines in England before this tour (0-4 in 2011) and 1-3 in 2014). We want to do much better than that."

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