GREGORY STEPHEN CHAPPELL

Gregory Stephen Chappell

An outstanding all round players who bowled standard pace and, at his retirement, held the world record for the majority of catches in Test cricket, Chappell's career straddled two eras as the match moved in the direction of a greater level of professionalism after the WSC schism.

Ever since his retirement as a player in 1984, Chappell has chased a variety of business and media happiness as well as maintaining connections to proficient cricket; he has been a selector for national and Queensland teams, a associate of the Australian Cricket Board, and a coach. He was selected coach of the India national cricket squad on a 2 year contract in 2005.

On the other hand, a sequence of arguments and personality clashes, pooled with India's pitiable performance at the 2007 Cricket World Cup led to his acquiescence from the spot on 4 April 2007.Chappell has provided as an academy instructor for the Rajasthan Royals, and was hired as the All Stars Coach for the 2008 Twenty20 match in opposition to Australia. He also serves as the administrative coach for a series of Cricket Summer Camps in the United States as part of Chappell Way.

Family and early career

Chappell was the second of three sons born in Adelaide to Martin and Jeanne a Cornish Australian family. He was erupted in the game from a very early age: his father Martin was a noted grade cricketer in Adelaide who put a bat in his hands as soon as he could walk, whereas his maternal grandfather was the famous all-round sportsman Victor Richardson, who skipped Australia at the end of a nineteen-Test career. Elder brother Ian and younger brother Trevor also participated for Australia, and Greg closely tracked in Ian's footsteps to the peak. Given daily lessons by Coach Lynn Fuller. The brothers fought out brutal backyard cricket matches, with no holds excluded. The fraternal association between Ian and Greg became legendary in Australian cricketing narration for fickle verbal slanging contests even for the period of hard fought Test matches, which had their start in the folks back yard. Chappell concentrated St Leonard's primary school, where he played his first competitive game at the age of eight; he also played a lot of baseball. Quite small for his age, Chappell developed a system for dealing with the high bouncing ball by playing most of his turns to the leg side. Aged twelve, he hit his first centuries and was elected for the South Australian state schools squad. He was then joined at Plimpton high school for two years before following Brother Ian and attending Prince Alfred College (PAC) on a scholarship.

In the summer of 1964-65, Chappell swiftly grew ten centimeters in seven weeks and within twelve months had shot up to 189cms. With this superior physical presence, Chappell was clever to dominate schoolboy matches in his ending school year of 1965. PAC's coach Chester Bennett (a past first-class player) wrote at this point.

The Chappell brothers played ranking cricket for Glenelg and they batted mutually for the first time in a semi final in opposition to Port Adelaide in before time 1966. Soon after that year, Ian was preferred for the Test tour to South Africa, which opened up a place in the South Australian side. Greg seized the chance by scoring 101*, 102* and 88 for his club, then made his first-class entrance in opposition to Victoria at Adelaide Oval, aged 18. Hampered by a throat infection, Chappell still managed 53 and 62* to earn an extended trial in the side. The rest of the season brought another 386 runs in 14 innings, including a maiden century in opposition to Queensland

Ganguly Spat

Chappell Ganguly controversy

Chappell's first overseas visit as the trainer of the Indian squad was to Zimbabwe in September 2005. Sourav Ganguly, the Indian skipper, attained a century in the first Test game and later on suspected that the coach Chappell had asked him to step down as head on the eve of the match. This was broadly roofed by the Indian media. Ganguly was later crashed from the Indian cricket squad by the selectors on the basis of poor form, but many in the media suggested his exclusion was inclined by the prior row with Chappell. It became lucid later than Ganguly had more enemies within the board other than Chappell who were intense to have him out of the system of things.

Coaching/commentary career

He has trained South Australia and toiled as consultant at Pakistan's National Cricket Academy. He has also labored as a commentator for ABC Radio. In 2002, he was initiated into the esteemed Australian Cricket Hall of Fame. In May 2005, he was allotted coach of the Indian national cricket side for a two year period until the World Cup 2007. He received about 175,000 USD as salary from the BCCI every year.

Of late, he came in for disparagement for his tinkering with the batting schedule and unorthodox cricket coaching systems. More than a few senior Indian players whom Chappell trained have come out to disparage his methods, with Virender Sehwag, Harbhajan Singh, and Zaheer Khan.His comments also did not go down fine with the Indian public.

Chappell was made a selector of the Australian national area on 29 October 2010, restoring Merv Hughes.