Fallout with Tendulkar my biggest regret: Chappell

[Ambi]

India's controversial former cricket coach Greg Chappell claims the biggest regret of his tumultuous three-year stint was the fallout with senior batsman Sachin Tendulkar with whom he simply failed to "communicate" properly.
Chappell, who served as India coach from 2005 to2007, admitted in his new autobiography 'Fierce Focus' that he tried to push hurried improvements in the team which led to his downfall, especially after his relations with senior players such as Tendulkar soured.
"My biggest regret was falling out with Sachin over him batting at number four in the one-day team. It was a shame because he and I had some intense and beneficial talks together prior to that. My impatience to see improvement across the board was my undoing in the end," writes the former Australian captain.
"The mistakes I made were not particularly 'western' but the same kind of mistakes I'd madeas a captain in my playing days. I didn't communicate my plans well enough to the seniorplayers. I should have let guys like Tendulkar, (VVS) Laxman and (Virender) Sehwag know that although I was an agent of change, they were still part of our Test future.
"When I did communicate with them, I was sometimes too abrupt. Once in South Africa, I called in Sachin and Sehwag to ask more of them,I could tell by the look on their faces that they were affronted," he recalled.
"Throughout, our living arrangements at the Taj Westend in Bangalore had always seemed tenuous. The BCCI was usually late in paying our bills, and Judy (his wife), along in Bangalore for much of the time I was touring, often didn't know whether my employer was looking after its commitments or not," Chappell claimed.
"The wages for me, Ian Frazer and other support staff were sometimes paid months late. I saw it more as back channel attempts to make life uncomfortable and push towards throwing it in. Things improved markedly under the (Sharad) Pawar regime," Chappell wrote.
In one of the chapter titled 'A New Hope', Chappell revealed that during his tenure he got tounderstand the kind of pressure Indian cricketerslived with, especially Tendulkar.
"A glimpse of them was a life-changing event...We were playing an unrelenting amount of cricket to satisfy the demand, at least 50 per cent more than Australia were playing and the pressure was beyond belief," he wrote.
"Nobody was carrying that pressure more than Sachin. Not even Don Bradman carried expectations like this, and Sachin had been bearing it since 1989," he said.
"When the team travelled, he would snap on his headphones, not look sideways, and shut it all out. There was a constant frenzy trying to get in at him. The energy it would have taken for him to let that kind of excitement in would have drained him dry," he further wrote.
Chappell revealed that he had asked Tendulkar to have a day off but the veteran batsman never wanted to because of the expectations of him.
"If he didn't train and then performed badly, he'd have been blamed. People would notice. And there was no relief for him going out onto the streets, either. He just couldn't get any rest," he explained.

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[Fastbowler123]

He is saying that now because Sachin has progressed to another level.

[Sherlock]

Yeah Chappell, bad idea to upset the Indians. You can bad mouth Ganguly all you want, but say very nice and polite things about Sachin.

[Zohaib Shah]

Shows the true nature of Sachin. It makes me wonder at times why he still continues his cricket? Because of how much pressure he has to deal with over the years. Has he not had enough or does he feel their is something else he still has to achieve. No one knows what goes on these Senior batsman's minds. Maybe its just passion and Love for the game that makes him continue it.

[Fastbowler123]

Originally Posted by Sherlock Yeah Chappell, bad idea to upset the Indians. You can bad mouth Ganguly all you want, but say very nice and polite things about Sachin.

No1 has ever said so many bad things about Sachin that Chappell has in this world , he is just forced to take his words back due to the success Sachin has enjoyed in the recent past .

[Zamee]

Originally Posted by Zohaib Shah Shows the true nature of Sachin. It makes me wonder at times why he still continues his cricket? Because of how much pressure he has to deal with over the years. Has he not had enough or does he feel their is something else he still has to achieve. No one knows what goes on these Senior batsman's minds. Maybe its just passion and Love for the game that makes him continue it.

He is what u can call a true sportsman.
A living legend indeed!!

[Watsupdoc]

This guy is such a joker

[TJChat]

Hearing anything regarding these two brothers is my biggest regret

[kingusama92]

Originally Posted by Zohaib Shah Shows the true nature of Sachin. It makes me wonder at times why he still continues his cricket? Because of how much pressure he has to deal with over the years. Has he not had enough or does he feel their is something else he still has to achieve. No one knows what goes on these Senior batsman's minds. Maybe its just passion and Love for the game that makes him continue it.

I guess he just loves playing cricket.

Deep down inside, you have to love the sport to play it for that long. He has all the money in the world, now it is just him and his desire to not let the fire die.

He knows he can rest all he wants later on. These days will never come back.

Plus, he is still pretty good!

[Statsman]

Sachin averaged 29.66 in test cricket during Greg Chappel's tenure. Tough times, those.

[cricaddict]

Originally Posted by Fastbowler123 He is saying that now because Sachin has progressed to another level.

just to illustrate this point .... since he started as India Coach in May 2005 Tendulkar has scored almost the same amount of International runs as Greggy did in his entire career Greggy got 9441 runs and Tendulkar since May 2005 has 9393 runs ... this is how the great man goes about owning the haters.

[Sultan Yusuf]

Shows a pretty poor attitude by teenda. So what if your coach asks something different of you. Tendi ur just a player and still have to answer to the coach you selfish coward