Whatmore, to me, seemed unfit for the same reasons as for Wright to leave now. Both have reached a standstill in their coaching creativity, it seems.

But this observation can be wrong also. What I realise is that even the good coaches are good (and the bad ones bad) in a given set of circumstances, and also with a given set of players. So Wright, a normal guy, turned out so good for India. And Whatmore may have been good for SriLanka, not for long though. And he is not good for b’desh, same way as Wright may possibly fail to turn the tide for NZ.

Also, in analysing a coaches past results, one should not loose focus on the set of players that he operated with. That is why maybe JOhn Buchanan may not be as good with Bangladesh (Marsh-Zimbabwe and Woolmer-Pakistan(first stint) are examples).

All said, I am not sure how good Chappel would be, but I am darn sure it depends a lot on the captain also. If it is Ganguly for atleast couple of years, then this is good move. Otherwise…I dont know !

I’ll be hugely surprised if Ganguly is not captaining the side when WC 2007 comes around. That’s slightly irrelevant to the question of coach of course. I like Chappell but he would always have coached in an environment that is receptive to his ideas, that has a terrific supporting infrastructure in place, etc. Now he’s going to have to learn to deal with the BCCI. Still, I look forward to some innovative thinking in the way India plays it’s games, not just batting/bowling orders but the general approach to the game. A jumble of initial thoughts, quite random and slightly chaotic, here.

please forward this to MR.Greg Chappell, hi this rajendra from sydney, was watching india performing in the final, disgusting to see batsman dragging require run rate around 5 to 10, this signifies the strike rotation not really good,so when we require one batsman to rotate strike and other to hit hard to accelerate scoring rate how we can see batsman like rahul dravid and kaif at the same time and ganguly who can play spinner well, if he is down under is difference confidence than having kumble or any tail lender. so advice then to roate strike when its just 5 runs per over require.and get more all rounders who are consistent

Hi to all,

Im not expert in cricket, but i strongly believe in a burned Desire to Win,a strong Believe in themself, and expectancy/knowing that they will Win !!
Leave the competion and duality and work as a great Team Together !!

Anneke

dear coach how do you do sir?
i am writing to you about indian cricket team for the tour of the pakistan as:

FOR ONE DAY AGINEST PAKISTAN 2006

sehwag (batsman or all rounder)
sachin (batsman)
dravid (batsman)
M.kaif (batsman)
pathan (batsman or all rounder) (bowler)
gangully (all rounder)
yuvraj (all rounder)
dhoni (all rounder)
harbhjan (bowler)
agarkar (bowler)
Z.khan (bowler)
12th man for kumble or r.p.singh

that’s my opninon for the series aginest pakistan
plz read one time i will be greatfull if you read my email and take seriouly

To:
The Great Greg Chappell
Indian Cricket Coach.

Very Very dear Sir,

Please carry forward. Don’t ashame what the people saying. Gangully is not important than the Indian Team. He served a lot. Now select new legs. V.R.V.Singh, Manoof Patel, Piyush Chawla & and a lot of young talents in India. Please find out individually. Our selectors and board not doing any interest for that. Now also they all are tying to select the experience (old) players. No benefit will get from that. bravely select new legs. Please find out the capability and fertile that. Last 25 years I am watching of hearing (radio commentary. I respect you and your policy. Carry forward. If an elephant goes in a street, some small animals will make noice. Don’t break your heart. We want Indian team to win matches. Don’t want any individual performances.

Thanks,

Yours faithfully,
Sd/-
Menon
If anybody knows Greg Chappell please circulate him & I wish to get his e-mail address.

ganguly is a pathetic looser who deserves to be wipped until he collapses!! …

dear coach mr. chapple
sir i want to suggest strongly that you must reveiw bating order as we shown against pakistan and sri lanka because that bating order is perfect rahul dravid remains on no. 3 uthappa must open with sehwag

and you are kindly requested to think of GOUTAM GAMBHIR,SHIKHAR DHAWAN,BALA JI so that we the indian proud to see our team as stong in the world

thanx with regards
raman deep upneja

Hi Dravid/Greg.,

I am not sure, is this your personal e-mail ID or will this reach you. In case if this reaches you, please try your best. You are a professional and a perfectionist who will take Indian Cricket to its height.

It is very difficult to digest the defeat of Indian Cricket Team in West Indies (1-4).

The main reason for our 2nd ODI defeat, I can point out to the 3 facts as below:
Youvraj Singh missing the GOLDEN run-out chance of Sarwan when he was on 0
Raina’s attempt to run-out Bradshaw in the 49th over of Irfan Pathan, where he missed the target and brought back Sarwan on strike who went on to hit 4,4 & 6 to complete that over with 15 runs. These 15 runs proved to be tooo costly for India
I think, we should practice basic things when playing international matches. If Yuvraj Singh had standing within the crease at the non-strikers end Gyal had no chance of taking the blinder return catch of Harbajhan Singh. We see lot of Indian batsmen stand outside the bowling crease at the non-strikers end which gives great opportunity to the bowlers to field or take return catches.

I think the run outs in the 3rd ODI cost us the match. The 4th one was one sided where we could not get a flying start.

Dravid, please concentrate more on Harbajhan Singhs record in the ODI’s. He is just an excess baggage for the Indian team in the ODI’s. For sure he is a better bowler in the test matches. We always manage to take wickets in the beginning, but fail to do it in the middle overs. Even Sehwag and Youvraj can bowl 10 overs each and end up giving 40 or 45 runs same like H. Singh. The interesting point is that these 2 part time spinners will end up with couple of wickets at least. But look at H.Singh who will give the same amount of runs and end up without any wicket.
Can you show me a one instance in this series where H.Singh has made life difficult for West Indian batsmen? His deliveries are not spinning, he has no variations, he has no doosra even (when he cannot bowl his pehla, how can he bowl his doosra)!
I think, you should think about bringing someone new who can be a very good spinner for our team. Or may be we should depend on Sehwag, Yuvraj or Raina for rolling the arm to play as spinners.

The result was pathetic for Indian Team. Lara to be honest with you humiliated all Indians.

Try to bring in players like Rohit Sharma, Shikhar Dhavan, Abid Nabi, Piyush Chawla. Encourage Munaf Patel, R.P. Singh, Sreesanth to bowl more aggressively and use the bouncer and Yorkers quite frequently.

Wishing you all good luck!

Ask, Yuvi to play aggressively and Kaif to be more consistent. He is much better player than his records show.

sir,
wat happen indian team, very poor team, i dont think this team win world cup 07, this team not aligable win world cup 07, so plz. improve in indian team

regards
s.trivedi

Sir,

But this performance of indian team very poor performance, very bad, i think not aligable win world cup 07. And i think bangladesh is better then indian team. persendt team i am not satisfied.

Hi - I am a Gujarati in Dubai - I would like to bring to your attention that Sree Santh needs to be there in this team at all times.No other bowler in the current side has the form of aggression and commitment he posseses.Not even our Munaf who cannot even field well .

Hi Chappell,

Continue your good work.
India is not playing well and for me these are the faults.

1)Very Very Poor Home Work done by India(Blame Chappell)
* Y Bcos…Take the case of Ntini, he is a very aggrsssive fast bowler.But he is not good against left handers.

2)Application of indias experienced batsamn is poor.

The trecherous Greg Chapell,has come to India just to bring down India in ICC Ranking and to break the morale of the Indian Cricketers.If the board president has got any logic sense,he should throw out this lier immidiately.

Abhijit

Hi Chappel,
Right from my youngerdays I am a fan of you.After you have become coach of our National Team, Iam keenly watching your coaching abilities. You are really doing a fantastic job. No use of teaching a team who refuses to learn and as long as partiality is shown in selection you cannot achieve results.If you have been born in India you would have been seen as a superstar.My advice to you is not to waste your time and energy.I do know many other countries are looking for you. I do not know your mail address . If this mail reaches you, please reply.

hi Greg
hello sir, I am ananth.
I suggest you see some ranji matches so that you can see many more players.As a cricketer you are a beautiful player and why can’t you teach the same techinques to your players.I suggest you to give captaincy to Ganguly or ny other senior player exept shewag as Dravid is feeling pressure and he is not able to bat well.India needs him as a batsman mainly. i think the world cup 16 players should be like this
1ganguly{captain}
2dravid{v.captain}
3sachin
4laxman
5yuvraj
6harbhajan
7dhoni
8suresh raina
9kaif
10kumble
11sreesanth
12zaheer
13dinesh karthik
14balaji
15vrv singh
16shewag
i wish this reches you
please see some ranji matches

My team will be as follows

1 Saurav Ganguly
2 Sachin Tendulkar
3 Virender Sehvag
4 Rahul Dravid
5 V.V.S Laxman
6 Youraj Singh
7 Raina or Kaif
8 Dhoni
9 Pathan or Zaheer Khan
10 Agarkar or Munaf
11 Harbajan or Kumble
12 Sreeshanth