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"Coaching is about posing questions, creating challenges and pushing players further than perhaps they think they can go."1 - Greg Chappell, coach, Indian national cricket team. "He [Chappell] could hardly be faulted on cricketing issues, but he did lack managerial skills. He ought to have been more tactful in dealing with some of the players and the media. The best thing about him, however, was that he had no vested interests in Indian cricket."2 - A senior BCCI3 official in 2007. "[…] at Infosys, we firmly believe in following processes and it's always worked for us. If Chappell's process didn't work, maybe it wasn't followed properly or he wasn't allowed to implement it in full."4 - NR Narayana Murthy, the founder of Infosys Technologies Ltd5, in 2007. Chappell's Unfullfilled Sojourn
The team had a disastrous outing in the 2007 World Cup and the aftermath was even more sordid. A blame game began between the coach and senior players in the team and the issue received wide coverage in the media. While the coach accused the seniors in the team of allegedly acting like a "mafia," undermining the authority of the captain and the coach, the senior players charged the coach with being unprofessional, authoritarian, and creating insecurity in the team.
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1] Vinay Nayudu, "Stranded on Chappell Way," www.indiatimes.com, 2007. |
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