Rakesh Chandra Shukla is a former India

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n cricket

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er who played in one Test

Test cricket

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 in 1982.
He was leg-break-googly-bowler and a decent hard-hitting batsman also. Those days all-rounders were not given the recognition unlike later years. With spin quartet of Bishan Singh Bedi

Bishan Singh Bedi

Bishan Singh Bedi is a former Indian cricketer who was primarily a slow left-arm orthodox bowler. He played Test cricket for India from 1966 to 1979 and formed part of the famous Indian spin quartet. He also captained the national side in 22 Test matches...

, B. S. Chandrasekhar, S. Venkataraghavan

Srinivasaraghavan Venkataraghavan

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 and Erapalli Prasanna he couldn't break into Indian team. In his later years youngsters like Maninder Singh

Maninder Singh

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 and Ravi Shastri

Ravi Shastri

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 were preferred. He would have made a better cricketer if One-day cricket

One-day cricket

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was common like later years. Shukla is presently a Cricket Consultant, giving his guidance to future cricketers as well as Cricketing professionals.