Posts Tagged "Greg Chappell"

I haven’t watched much cricket on Channel Nine this summer, but I managed to watch one tea segment that really had me thinking.

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Australian cricketing great and former India coach Greg Chappell says technology should be used to help umpires in all international series, not just at the whim of competing nations.

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David Warner says he has Greg Chappell to thank for his transformation from Twenty20 rock star to Test opener, but it’s one Indian master blaster Virender Sehwag saw coming two years earlier.

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Don Argus has warned his far-reaching and scathing review of Australian cricket will take 18 months to yield significant progress. But the immediate casualties are obvious.

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Australia will look to start their long climb back up the world Test rankings when they take on Sri Lanka in the first of three Test matches later this month

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“Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball.” Those were the words of Jacques Barzun. But hearts are curious creatures, often inscrutable to the empirical mind.

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With all the brouhaha surrounding the omission of in-form but aging Test opener Simon Katich from the list of 25 contracted players, I thought I would share with fellow Roarers an interesting selection intrigue that occurred many years ago indirectly involving current fulltime selector, Greg Chappell.

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Greg Chappell can joke about it now but it was a scary time when Terry Jenner was felled by a bouncer from England’s John Snow. The incident sparked a massive outcry at the Sydney Cricket Ground during the seventh Test of the 1970-71 series.

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Australian selector Greg Chappell insists he has not advised Mike Hussey to retire, labelling any such claim as “untrue”. Hussey was livid at national selectors when he was told he was too much of a risk to take to the World Cup due to recent surgery on his hamstring.

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The dress rehearsals are over with Australia thrashing England 6-1. True, most of it was meaningless, but still there were some positives; the return of Brett Lee, the return to batting form for Michael Clarke, Shane Watson all-round act and the middle-order solidity of David Hussey.

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Yesterday marked the 30th anniversary of the underarm incident that created perhaps the biggest cricket controversy since the Bodyline series of 1932-33.

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Unlike many cricket watchers, I’ve never been completely convinced that Shane Watson deserved all the bile that came his way, despite his peroxide tantrums and fondness for flashing his pecs whilst loitering in towels.

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Selection chairman Andrew Hilditch has absolved himself of blame for Australia’s crushing Ashes series defeat and warns even tougher challenges lie ahead for the Test team.

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With the Ashes now lost, thoughts turn to the future and where Australian cricket is heading. Cricket in this country is now under severe pressure.

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For us cricket tragics, there’s always something special when we see and hear leather hitting willow. We watch it on television, listen to it on the radio, follow it online. But there’s nothing quite like being there.

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Greg Chappell appears likely to become the most influential voice in the future of the Australian Test team as Cricket Australia decide whether to streamline the roles of national talent manager and chairman of selectors.

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“You can’t win, unless you win.” That’s how Australian cricket’s chairman of selectors Andrew Hilditch sums up his job.

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Forget the recent Wikileaks revelations that the US thinks the Russian PM Medvedev “plays Robin to Putin’s Batman” or that the Italian leader, Berlusconi, is “vain and ineffective”. Forget even that President Sarkozy of France is seen as “thin-skinned”.

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The first Ashes series I followed was in 1970/71, which as any cricket aficionado would know, was a bittersweet experience for Aussie cricket fans.

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A couple of risky shots in the first Ashes Test could spell the end of Mike Hussey’s time in the baggy green. Yet Australian selector Greg Chappell says daring strokeplay could be the answer for Hussey in his bid to fight his way out of a form slump that has yielded an average of 37 [...]

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