Greg Chappell -- symbol of evil

[Dinx - the Jinx]

Ok. Its BCCI's fault that we dint play games there. Why is Greg Chappel doing this for Australia when he is part of RCA and hence BCCI. Did he get anything like this for India when we toured SA or Windies? He's a venom spilling snake. We shoudn't have let him inside the country as a coach. That was a big mistake and we're nmow paying the price for it.

[Dinx - the Jinx]

And he'll also tell the players to show his :finger: to the spectators

[beetle]

Aussies getting too much 'help' in India: BCCI Aussies getting too much 'help' in India: BCCI New Delhi, September 25: The Cricket Board has objected to top-class facilities being provided to Australian team by the Rajasthan Cricket Academy in Jaipur, where Ricky Ponting and Co are camping for a week before the start of Test series. BCCI Chief Administrative Officer Ratnakar Shetty told a private television channel that the RCA was obliging the Australians more than expected. "We won't get this kind of facilities if India went abroad, we would have got the bare minimum. RCA is being a little too obliging to the Australian team, they have done more than what a host country will do," Shetty said in a TV channel. Former India coach Greg Chappell, who is the chief coach at RCA Centre of Excellence and is presently touring with Australian team as the assistant coach, has arranged all facilities using his influential association with the RCA. Chief Curator of RCA admitted that specialised practice pitches, each of a different character had been offered to the Australians. "Looking into the conditions of India, we have given Australia everything they wanted for practice. We have prepared 10 wickets for Australia," said Chief Curator Taposh Chatterjee. But the RCA officials refused to agree that there was anything suspicious about their hospitality. "Well, this is the first time a team has come a week before. So, why not if we are fair players," said RCA President Bimal Soni. Ponting's men, who arriver on Monday will practice in Jaipur till Sunday. They will fly to Hyderabad for a four-day practice match against the BCCI President's XI starting October 2. The series opener starts in Bangalore from October 9. http://www.indianexpress.com/news/aussies-getting-too-much-help-in-india-.../365853/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Greggy is milking his association with RCA Why do we bend over backwards to help out the visitors.All we get are mental games. I hope BCCI learns a lesson from this drives a hard bargain for the team for future tours.

[Sachinism]

there was already a thread on this

[Dinx - the Jinx]

[india should recall Ganguly just for the psychological edge v. Chappell]

I like tat :winky:

[Chandan]

"We won't get this kind of facilities if India went abroad, we would have got the bare minimum. RCA is being a little too obliging to the Australian team, they have done more than what a host country will do," Shetty said in a TV channel. Former India coach Greg Chappell, who is the chief coach at RCA Centre of Excellence and is presently touring with Australian team as the assistant coach, has arranged all facilities using his influential association with the RCA. Chief Curator of RCA admitted that specialised practice pitches, each of a different character had been offered to the Australians. "Looking into the conditions of India, we have given Australia everything they wanted for practice. We have prepared 10 wickets for Australia," said Chief Curator Taposh Chatterjee. But the RCA officials refused to agree that there was anything suspicious about their hospitality. "Well, this is the first time a team has come a week before. So, why not if we are fair players," said RCA President Bimal Soni. Ponting's men, who arriver on Monday will practice in Jaipur till Sunday. They will fly to Hyderabad for a four-day practice match against the BCCI President's XI starting October 2. The series opener starts in Bangalore from October 9. http://www.indianexpress.com/news/aussies-getting-too-much-help-in-india-.../365853/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Greggy is milking his association with RCA Why do we bend over backwards to help out the visitors.All we get are mental games. I hope BCCI learns a lesson from this drives a hard bargain for the team for future tours.

He is not only milking it, he is looting it, in fact. Just look at the facilities: Former India coach and ex-Australia captain Greg Chappell, who is closely associated with the Rajasthan academy, ensured that excellent facilities were provided for his compatriots ahead of the four-Test series. Local officials are only too happy to obey Chappell's commands in his capacity as the touring team's assistant coach. “Looking at Indian conditions, we have given Australia everything they wanted for practice,” said RCA's chief pitch curator Taposh Chatterjee. “We have prepared 10 wickets for the Australians.” The different playing surfaces include a few that take spin, others which help seam bowlers and the rest are easy-paced batting wickets so typical of South Asia. RCA officials defended their unusual hospitality for the Australians. “This is the first time a team has arrived a week ahead of schedule, so why not give them the best facilities,” said RCA official Bimal Soni. “We are fair players.” The tourists will train in Jaipur until Sunday before flying to southern Hyderabad for a four-day match against the Indian board president's XI from October 2. That will be the final warm-up for the Australians ahead of the first Test starting in Bangalore from October 9. The remaining back-to-back Tests will be played in Mohali, New Delhi and Nagpur. And yesterday there was an article : POA in place, Aussies leave nothing to chance Arjun Sen, Hindustan Times Jaipur, September 25, 2008 First Published: 00:00 IST(25/9/2008) Last Updated: 00:04 IST(25/9/2008) It might be early days yet, but if the Aussies' first training session in India was a sign of things to come, Greg Chappell's role as the team's assistant coach will be a pretty much hands-on one. Greg Chappell, whose every move has been discussed and dissected ever since he came here with the Australian team, spent a considerable amount of time with most of the players individually, both batsmen and bowlers, in the almost four-hour long nets session. The much talked about 'customised' wickets prepared by the Rajasthan Cricket Association under the guidance of Chappell to help the Aussies gain an idea of just what to expect in India were on show on Wednesday, and, by the looks of it, Chappell has done his homework. Sources at the Rajasthan Cricket Association say that Chappell wanted 'one wicket that turned square', one that would 'be like Nagpur, 2004' and a third 'conventional Indian wicket'. And though it was hard to see whether the former India coach got what he wanted from the tracks, what was clear was the fact that there were clearly designated tracks for the pacers, the medium pacers and the spinners. Of the fast quartet of Brett Lee, Mitchell Johnson, Stuart Clark and new boy Doug Bollinger, it was Bollinger who caught the eye with a few more than decent deliveries which had the likes of Ricky Ponting and Michael Clarke in some discomfort. The word from Down Under is that Bollinger is fast, menacing and could be a handful for the much-vaunted Indian batting. A surprise inclusion to the team, this left-armer could yet prove to be the most prudent. But Bollinger was not the only new face on show. Though both the spinners in the Australian side, leggie Bruce McGain and off spinner Jason Krejza, have played in India in the past – they were a part of the Australia A team that toured earlier this month – there was a lot of curiosity to see the men who will shoulder the unenviable task of keeping quiet the Indian bats. Though the Australians have sought to underplay the edge the Indian spinners hold over McGain and Krejza, they know that their spinners have to hold their own against Virender Sehwag and Co. A task, much easier said than done. And perhaps, it was with this in mind that Chappell went straight to Krejza, monitoring his action, watching him bowl very closely, almost as if trying to look for that one flaw the Indians could exploit and right it. But though Krejza bowled a long spell, McGain, surprisingly, did not bowl. Most of the batsmen looked rusty, being beaten, even by the local bowlers, but it is precisely to get over this rustiness that the Aussies are in Jaipur. It is all part of the plan. And if some think that BCCI is doing it, then no. It is RCA which is doing it because the RCA owns the Academy there not BCCI. RCA can have independent plans and the Australians are the guests there, courtesy Greg Chappell and the fools at RCA.

[beetle]

I bet he mentioned what all he gets with him in his resume.Get me...get RCA free. I bet RCA wouldn't do it for any indian coach.Idiots with a gori chamdi complex!

[Dinx - the Jinx]

"Looking into the conditions of India, we have given Australia everything they wanted for practice. We have prepared 10 wickets for Australia," said Chief Curator Taposh Chatterjee. But the RCA officials refused to agree that there was anything suspicious about their hospitality. "Well, this is the first time a team has come a week before. So, why not if we are fair players," said RCA President Bimal Soni.

You sulking bastards? Who is paying for this? Its the Indian cricket fans who throng your stadiums and watch on tv, from where you are getting all the ticket collection and sponsorship money and you are using that to please Greg's gorgeous ego... Shame on yo fellas. All curators in this country should be taken to G Bay and asked to eat "**** meat Sandwich" @Sachinism - this time i'm correct with the sandwich.

[Dinx - the Jinx]

Somehow, I'm not able to digest this news man... Its like feeling so helpless with the way these Aussie ****ers have planned for this tour. Probably thats why they dint want to goto Pakistan and waste time playing CT. Cant BCCI do something to stop this non-sense being dished out by RCA?

[h4te]

Isn't Modi the president of RCA. mofo prolly sold it for millions. and no, i don't have proof.

[Dravid]

whats ***ed up about this is, that our players who play there, probably get that good of a facility, with 10 pitches and shyt once in their lifetime but bow to the gora..idiots

[Feed]

Chappell given task to address Ponting's problem Greg Chappell has been given the job to address Australian captain Ricky Ponting's dismal record in India during the Test series starting October 9. More... Chappell given task to address Ponting's problem Press Trust Of India Jaipur, September 25, 2008 First Published: 18:54 IST(25/9/2008) Last Updated: 19:05 IST(25/9/2008) Greg Chappell's role in the Australian team's scheme of things seemed to be getting even bigger than expected as the former India coach has apparently been given the job to address captain Ricky Ponting's dismal record in India during the Test series starting October 9. Ponting has scored just 172 runs from 14 innings in India at an average of 12.28 as compared to his overall Test average of 58.37 and 'Guru' Greg was today seen devoting much of his time on the visiting captain during the three-hour team practice session at RCA's Future Cricket Academy in Jaipur He arrived at the Academy with the first lot of players comprising batsmen only, wearing his trademark round hat and scarf around the neck. Head coach Tim Nielsen reached later with the second lot of players comprising bowlers and all-rounders. Chappell watched Ponting play his natural shots off fast bowlers locals and Rajasthan Ranji players -- on a specially-designed 'conventional fifth-day India pitch' at the RCA facility for around 20 minutes without giving much attention to other batsmen. He then had a lengthy animated discussion with Ponting after the captain switched to the spinning wicket, apparently telling him how to adjust his techniques while facing an Anil Kumble or Harbhajan Singh on slow Indian pitches. What actually transpired was out of bounds for the scribes as they had to watch the players from a distance and had to get into the RCA facility only after showing media passes. More Tight security was thrown around the ground with at least 40 police personnel led by senior officers, and private security men, manning the entrance and even the RCA officials were issued special passes. The former Australia captain, now the assistant coach of the team, in his capacity as head of Cricket Australia's Centre of Excellence in Brisbane has also decided to end his hide and seek with the media with a formal interaction on Saturday. Chappell, who is also Technical adviser at the RCA, has been unreachable since the Australians landed at the Pink City on Monday and today also he did not go beyond 'Hi people' greetings and waving off hands to the media posse. Outgoing BCCI Secretary Niranjan Shah had yesterday added much spice to Chappell's distance from the media, saying that the stone-faced Australian had courted trouble during his controversial two-year tenure as India coach as he "communicated to the players through the media rather than talking to the players directly". Australian team media manager Matthew Slade confirmed Chappell would express his views on various issues on Saturday at a press conference. "Chappell will have a press conference on Saturday. It is better that he put across his views himself through a formal event (instead of any misunderstanding)," Slade said. "He can answer queries on a range of issues," he added. Opener Matthew Hayden and vice-captain Michael Clarke, both among the quartet who have Test experience in India others being Ponting and Simon Katich also got attention from Chappell, who had discussions with the two batsmen while slogging at the spinning tracks. The bowlers were, however, exempted from sending down deliveries and only had catching, throwing and hitting-the-stumps practice. Later, all-rounder Shane Watson, who batted and bowled today, told reporters that the bowlers were given a bit of rest to 'recover' from yesterday's practice session. "They (bowlers) had strenuous practice yesterday so they were given recovery time. They will resume bowling tomorrow," he said.

[Guest Yograj Singh]

I have a lot of respect for Greg Chappell. When there were many in the BCCI and Indian selection committee who doubted my son, Greg backed Yuvi all the way and encouraged him to show what a class act he is. Yuvi showed he was the WORLD'S BEST BATSMAN IN ODIS. I wish the people in charge now had his brains and vision.

[Lord]

I have a lot of respect for Greg Chappell. When there were many in the BCCI and Indian selection committee who doubted my son' date=' Greg backed Yuvi all the way and encouraged him to show what a class act he is. Yuvi showed he was the WORLD'S BEST BATSMAN IN ODIS. I wish the people in charge now had his brains and vision.[/quote'] so do u approve wat he's doin?

[DomainK]

The Australians never gave any importance to Chappell ever. They always considered him a shame ever after that underarm incident. I am sure that Chappell's name is coming in news as a part of the famous Australian "mental games" and nothing else.

[h4te]

I have a lot of respect for Greg Chappell. When there were many in the BCCI and Indian selection committee who doubted my son' date=' Greg backed Yuvi all the way and encouraged him to show what a class act he is. Yuvi showed he was the WORLD'S BEST BATSMAN IN ODIS. I wish the people in charge now had his brains and vision.[/quote'] STFU AND GTFO!

[jf1gp_1]

what is this an excuse thread incase we lose the test series ?

[Shehezaada]

what a great thing it would be if ponting continues to fail in india.....slap in the face to both him and chappel

[Dinx - the Jinx]

Greg sux - BIG TIME

[SachDan]

Ponting should thank Greg even if he scores a fifty..such an abysmal record in India.