"Foreign Coaches Have Their Favourites As Well" - Virender Sehwag Says Greg Chappell Assured Him Indian Captaincy Before Dropping Him

Former Indian batter Virender Sehwag stated that foreign coaches can show bias towards the players, citing his personal experience with the national cricket team. Virender Sehwag says that Greg Chappell promised him the captaincy in 2005 but dropped him from the team two months later.

Gregg Chappell was appointed head of the Indian national cricket team in 2005. The former Australian captain was with the team for two years before leaving his role in 2007. The Men in Blue had a disastrous campaign at the 2007 50-over World Cup, where they were eliminated from the group stage.

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In an interview with SportsNext, Virender Sehwag highlighted that foreign coaches can have their favourite players in the team, similar to Indian coaches.

“Those seniors had spent a lot of time with Indian coaches and felt that they had favorites and would show bias towards those players. ‘Jo favourite nahi hota hai uski shamat aa jati hai’ (A player who is not a favourite, lands in a lot of trouble),” Sehwag said.

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“They believed that if a foreign coach came, he would judge all the players according to how they needed to be judged. But actually, this isn’t true because foreign coaches have their favourites as well.

They too see the names… be it Tendulkar, Dravid, Ganguly or Laxman. When Greg Chappell came the first statement he made was ‘Sehwag will be captain’. In two months… forget captaincy, I was out of the team.”

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The Best Was Gary Kirsten – Virender Sehwag

Sehwag believes the Indian team needs better management, not coaching. The former Indian opener said that Gary Kirsten had good relationships with the players, which helped them perform better.

“The best was Gary Kirsten, who would make me play 50 balls and then tell me to go back home or to the hotel. Rahul Dravid would play 200 balls, Tendulkar 300 and Gambhir 400 – he knew how much each player needed to practice,” he concluded.

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