Greg Chappell Used to Conduct Long Meetings After Sacking Sourav Ganguly, Recalls Virender Sehwag

Former India player Virender Sehwag said that former India coach Greg Chappell used to conduct long meetings after sacking Sourav Ganguly from the team. Sehwag, who played for India under coach Chappell, recalled the latter’s practice of taking long meetings.

Former Australia player Chappell was picked as India’s coach in 2005. His tenure is termed as one of the worst for Team India. During his tenure, he snubbed Sourav Ganguly as skipper and also sacked him from the team due to an e-mail controversy.

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Greg Chappell Used To Conduct Long Meetings After Sacking Sourav Ganguly: Sehwag

During a recent show titled ’15 years of Incredible T20 League’ on Star Sports, Sehwag spoke about Chappell’s unusual practice of taking long meetings. Sharing the stage with fellow players like Sourav Ganguly, Harbhajan Singh, and Irfan Pathan, Virender Sehwag recalled that Chappell used to use long meetings after sacking Ganguly.

“When Greg Chappell became coach, we started having really long meetings. We used to sit for longer durations. When he removed Dada as captain and got another skipper, he began conducting long meetings”, Sehwag said.

To this, Ganuly replied that he did not know because he wasn’t part of those meetings. Later, Sehwag mentioned, “In Zimbabwe, Dada, Greg Chappell and Rahul Dravid played a lot of pool”. To this, Ganguly replied, “There he conducted meeting worth three years”.

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Ganguly’s witty response brought a burst of laughter among all the players. Under Greg Chappell’s tenure, India faced a humiliating first-round exit in ICC ODI World Cup 2007 in West Indies. Later, Chappell was sacked as the coach. MS Dhoni took the leadership of the team and led the team to victory in ICC T20 World Cup 2007 in the same year.

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