Even brother Ian Chappell was not very positive about Greg Chappell taking over as Team India coach in 2005 and so was Sunil Gavaskar, but Sourav Ganguly says he decided to ignore all these warnings and follow his instincts on the appointment. “In our previous meetings he had impressed me with his deep cricketing knowledge,” Ganguly writes in his autobiography “A Century is Not Enough”. “I thought Greg Chappell would be the best person to take us to the number one slot from the challenger’s position. His past coaching record is not spectacular, he told me,” writes Ganguly. “He shared in confidence that even his brother Ian thought Greg might not be the right choice for India.

Source: Hindustan Times February 26, 2018 09:45 UTC