Greg Chappell comments in his book about Sachin and Ganguly

[Alchemist]

OMG.....we are missing a mega blockbuster here. He needs to be Pakistan's Coach now. Can you imagine all the contreversies and back stabbing (and actual stabbing) that might happen. I sincerely wish that hetakes that job. That would be mega entertainment.

[vamos_rafa]

OMG.....we are missing a mega blockbuster here. He needs to be Pakistan's Coach now. Can you imagine all the contreversies and back stabbing (and actual stabbing) that might happen. I sincerely wish that hetakes that job. That would be mega entertainment.

Yeah Waqar asked shahazada to shut up. Greg's reaction would be like :finger:

[Precambrian]

Chappel forgot one thing -- Indians are not like Australians when it comes to professionalism and fitness! If he had understood that' date=' he would have been better off.[/quote'] And the chap is talking about indians' unwillingness to gel with local culture and "assimilate"... the irony.. haha

[jhakati]

Haha funny how some clowns on this site are supporting or believing the worst coach in Indian history over one of India's greatest captains. Easy to see why our country was invaded time and again with such characters among us.

[jhakati]

funny chappel criticizes ganguly for not supporting youngsters when dada was the one under who yuvraj, sehwag, bhajji, zaheer etc. flourished, chappal is a joke.

[Sarkar]

Chappal shud shut up Dada had more guts than chappal ever had.

[Malcolm Merlyn]

Chappel is a joker..........no one in the team liked him...........not even GODDY....... Not even his own countrymen liked him..............he was sacked by CA.............

[Sachin=GOD]

Former cricketer............book..................controversy...................high sales :aha: :aha:

[mishra]

From Op

"There were a billion of them and only one of Sourav. I wanted to help India become the best cricket team in the world,"

Oh dada...... Billion of us hate you.You didnt allowed Chappel as my servant.....:hysterical:

[achilles]

It is interesting to know that not a single ex-coach ever speaks ill of Anil Kumble, while they are full of stories about Sachin and Sourav. No smoke without fire :P

[gaurav92]

Load of BS :headshake:

[vamos_rafa]

It is interesting to know that not a single ex-coach ever speaks ill of Anil Kumble' date=' while they are full of stories about Sachin and Sourav. No smoke without fire :P[/quote'] Can you think of any other coach apart from Guru greg who has spoken trash about Sachin/Saurav?

[kabira]

It is interesting to know that not a single ex-coach ever speaks ill of Anil Kumble' date=' while they are full of stories about Sachin and Sourav. No smoke without fire :P[/quote'] what other coach has stories about Sachin and Sourav??

[achilles]

Can you think of any other coach apart from Guru greg who has spoken trash about Sachin/Saurav?

what other coach has stories about Sachin and Sourav??

John Wright famously left our job because he was tired of Ganguly's insults. This was on an Outlook cover when he quit.

[kabira]

^ I did not see such comments in his biography. and what about Sachin??

[Yoda-esque]

I believe this as well http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/sports/cricket/top-stories/Fallout-with-Tendulkar-my-biggest-regret-Chappell/articleshow/10679021.cms

[pensionplan]

John Wright famously left our job because he was tired of Ganguly's insults. This was on an Outlook cover when he quit.

Ganguly was lucky to have players like SRT, RD, VVS and AK at their peak who are all good guys with great attitude unlike his own. Chappell's observations about Ganguly and his attitiude and arrogance are spot on and consistent with the general feeling in cricketing circles about Ganguly. It is too bad Chappell did not play his cards right though he had the right intentions while coaching the Indian cricket team. His methods as the coach in the end left a lot to be desired but one cannot sweep his obeservations about Ganguly under the rug and was right in sacking Ganguly at the time.

[achilles]

Ganguly was lucky to have players like SRT' date=' RD, VVS and AK at their peak who are all good guys with great attitude unlike his own. Chappell's observations about Ganguly and his attitiude and arrogance are spot on and consistent with the general feeling in cricketing circles about Ganguly. It is too bad Chappell did not play his cards right though he had the right intentions while coaching the Indian cricket team. His methods as the coach in the end left a lot to be desired but one cannot sweep his obeservations about Ganguly under the rug and was right in sacking Ganguly at the time.[/quote'] We should be forever grateful to Greg Chappell. The way he riled our seniors up is quite legendary. It seemed they wanted to prove a point everytime they walked out on the pitch.

[vamos_rafa]

We should be forever grateful to Greg Chappell. The way he riled our seniors up is quite legendary. It seemed they wanted to prove a point everytime they walked out on the pitch.

That's correct. I have always maintained that whatever Grg Chappel did with Ganguly and Zak was correct. The method would nto have been, but the outcome that came out was certainly.

[Crookbond]

Greg Chappell regrets fallout with Tendulkar http://es.pn/vM9pgR

Greg Chappell, the former Australia captain, has said in his new book that the biggest regret of his controversial three-year stint as India coach was his failure to communicate properly with Sachin Tendulkar, with whom he had a strained relationship. Chappell coached India from 2005 to 2007 and pushed hard to bring fresh faces into the Indian side, and tried to initiate changes in the batting line-up. His desire for change did not sit well with many of India's senior players though. He had a very public spat with then India captain, Sourav Ganguly, while the likes of Zaheer Khan, Virender Sehwag and Harbhajan Singh have all criticised his methods. But it was his disagreement with Tendulkar over his position in the batting order in one-day cricket that he wishes he had handled differently. "My biggest regret was falling out with Sachin over him batting at number four in the one-day team," PTI quotes Chappell as writing in his new autobiography, Fierce Focus. "It was a shame because he and I had some intense and beneficial talks together prior to that. My impatience to see improvement across the board was my undoing in the end. "The mistakes I made were not particularly 'western' but the same kind of mistakes I had made as a captain in my playing days. I didn't communicate my plans well enough to the senior players. I should have let guys like Tendulkar, (VVS) Laxman and (Virender) Sehwag know that although I was an agent of change, they were still part of our Test future. Chappell has also admitted that he was at times abrupt in his dealings with some of the players. "Once in South Africa, I called in Sachin and Sehwag to ask more of them, I could tell by the look on their faces that they were affronted. Later [Rahul] Dravid, who was in the room, said, 'Greg, they've never been spoken to like that before'." One thing his time as coach did help him understand was the huge amount of pressure Indian cricketers are under, especially Tendulkar. "A glimpse of them was a life-changing event... We were playing an unrelenting amount of cricket to satisfy the demand, at least 50% more than Australia were playing and the pressure was beyond belief. "Nobody was carrying that pressure more than Sachin. Not even Don Bradman carried expectations like this, and Sachin had been bearing it since 1989. "When the team travelled, he would snap on his headphones, not look sideways, and shut it all out. There was a constant frenzy trying to get in at him. The energy it would have taken for him to let that kind of excitement in would have drained him dry." Chappell said he had encouraged Tendulkar to take a day off from training but Tendulkar said that was not a feasible option given the fans' expectations of him. "If he didn't train and then performed badly, he'd have been blamed. People would notice. And there was no relief for him going out onto the streets, either. He just couldn't get any rest." The book also reveals that prior to Sharad Pawar taking over as BCCI president in 2006, Chappell had a somewhat uncomfortable relationship with the board, whom he claims tried to make life difficult for him, his family and his staff by not paying their bills and wages for months. "Throughout our living arrangements at the Taj Westend in Bangalore had always seemed tenuous. The BCCI was usually late in paying our bills, and Judy (Chappell's wife), alone in Bangalore for much of the time I was touring, often didn't know whether my employer was looking after its commitments or not. "The wages for me, Ian Frazer and other support staff were sometimes paid months late. I saw it more as back channel attempts to make life uncomfortable and push towards throwing it in. Things improved markedly under the [sharad] Pawar regime."