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Sourav Ganguly: Even Greg Chappell’s hermit Ian had doubts over him being coach
- Updated: February 27, 2018
Even hermit Ian Chappell was not really certain about Greg Chappell holding over as Team India manager in 2005 and so was Sunil Gavaskar, though Sourav Ganguly says he motionless to omit all these warnings and follow his instincts on a appointment
Sourav Ganguly
Even hermit Ian Chappell was not really certain about Greg Chappell holding over as Team India manager in 2005 and so was Sunil Gavaskar, though Sourav Ganguly says he motionless to omit all these warnings and follow his instincts on a appointment. In fact, Ganguly was in astonishment of Chappell before to his appointment and even embarked on a ‘secret trip’ to Australia in 2003. He got in hold with Chappell as he suspicion he would be a best chairman to assistance him in his mission. “In a prior meetings he had tender me with his low cricketing knowledge,” Ganguly writes in his journal “A Century is Not Enough”.
“I suspicion Greg Chappell would be a best chairman to take us to a series one container from a challenger’s position. we had conveyed my personal choice to Mr (Jagmohan) Dalmiya when they were looking for a new Indian coach,” a book, co-authored by Gautam Bhattacharya and published by Juggernaut, says. “A few people suggested me opposite this move. Sunil Gavaskar was one of them. ‘Sourav, consider about it. With him around we competence have problems in using a team. His past coaching record is not spectacular, he told me,” writes Ganguly.
He says Dalmiya also called one morning and asked him to come to his residence for an obligatory discussion. “He common in certainty that even his hermit Ian suspicion Greg competence not be a right choice for India. Well, we motionless to omit all these warnings and follow my instincts,” Ganguly writes.
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