{"id":794694,"date":"2026-10-07T09:52:20","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T09:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/794694\/"},"modified":"2026-10-07T09:52:20","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T09:52:20","slug":"ravi-shastri-mourns-jeffrey-archer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/794694\/","title":{"rendered":"Ravi Shastri Mourns Jeffrey Archer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ravi Shastri received a signed copy of Jeffrey Archer&#8217;s final novel days before the author&#8217;s death.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"imgwidth\" title=\"Ravi Shastri with Jeffrey Archer\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/06ravi-shastri-jeffrey-archer.jpg\" alt=\"Ravi Shastri with Jeffrey Archer\" style=\"max-width:100%;\"\/><\/p>\n<p>IMAGE: Ravi Shastri with Jeffrey Archer. Photograph: Kind courtesy Ravi Shastri\/X<\/p>\n<p>Key Points<\/p>\n<p>Ravi Shastri expressed deep sadness over the passing of legendary author Jeffrey Archer.<br \/>\nShastri received Archer&#8217;s latest book, Adam And Eve, signed by the author just five days before his death.<br \/>\nJeffrey Archer, 86, died &#8216;suddenly and peacefully at home&#8217; on Monday.<br \/>\nAdam And Eve, described by Archer as his final novel, was scheduled for worldwide release the day after his death.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"rbig\">Ravi Shastri was overcome with emotion as he shared a poignant post in a tribute to Jeffrey Archer, who passed into the ages on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Just received his latest book, Adam and Eve, signed by him only five days ago. Today, he is no more. What a brilliant mind. The sheer pace and quality of his writing was extraordinary. Legendary. Rest in peace. God bless his soul. #RIPJeffreyArcher,&#8217; Shastri posted on his X handle alongside a photograph with the late wordsmith.<\/p>\n<p>The 86-year-old author of bestsellers Not A Penny More, Not A Penny Less and Kane &amp; Abel, died, &#8216;suddenly and peacefully at home&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Archer&#8217;s death came just one day before the scheduled worldwide release of Adam And Eve, which he had described as his final novel after 50 years of storytelling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ravi Shastri received a signed copy of Jeffrey Archer&#8217;s final novel days before the author&#8217;s death. IMAGE: Ravi&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":794695,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[261521,1721,44137,261520,200767,15620,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-794694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-adam-and-eve","tag-cricket","tag-god","tag-jeffrey-archer","tag-kane","tag-ravi-shastri","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=794694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/794695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=794694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=794694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=794694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}