Shastri: This is a temporary phase for Team India

Ravi Shastri. Pic/AFP

Former India head coach Ravi Shastri does not see any reason to press the panic button after the team's shocking Test and ODI series loss to an under-strength South Africa as he believes it is a "temporary phase" and the side will tide over it soon.

"If you lose one series, you people start criticising...You can't win every game, there will be wins and losses," Shastri told PTI on the sidelines of the Legends League Cricket. Shastri said he did not follow a single ball of the South Africa series but refused to believe that the standard has dropped. "How can the standard go down suddenly? For five years, you have been number one side in the world," he asserted.

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