Leading players such as Sunil Gavaskar, Clive Lloyd, Kepler Wessels, Ian Botham, Graham Gooch, Allan Lamb, Viv Richards, Graeme Pollock, Wasim Akram, Ravi Shastri, Allan Border, Martin Crowe and many more were putting their trust in the product.
Ravi Shankar | Raja Ravi Varma | Ravi Shastri | Ravi | Lal Bahadur Shastri | Jayam Ravi | Ravi Zacharias | Ravi Tandon | Ravi (music director) | Ravi Babu | Major Ravi | Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration | Haraprasad Shastri | V. V. Ravi | Vidyadhar Shastri | 'Victory of Meghanada',
Painting by Raja Ravi Varma | Shukraraj Shastri | Shastri Park | Ravi Shankar (spiritual leader) | Ravi Shankar Prasad | Ravi K. Chandran | Ravi Hutheesing | Ravi Bopara | Ravi Batra | Ravana cuts Jatayu's wings, by Ravi Varma | Raja Ravi Varma College of Fine Arts | Nizhalgal Ravi | K. S. Ravi | Harini Ravi |
The series is notable from an Indian point of view for Ravi Shastri's double hundred, Sachin Tendulkar's 114 on a bouncy pitch at Perth while the other Indian batsmen struggled and Kapil Dev becoming the first Indian bowler to take 400 wickets in Tests.
Bombay had at their disposal some of the then current stars of the Indian cricket team, including Sunil Gavaskar, Dilip Vengsarkar, Ashok Mankad, Sandeep Patil, Ravi Shastri and Balwinder Sandhu.