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Chappell resigns as Indian cricket coach
New Delhi | April 04, 2007 6:11:13 PM IST
Days after India crashed out of the World Cup, coach Greg Chappell on Wednesday resigned from his post. Chappell offered to quit as the coach of Indian cricket team in an e-mail sent to Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) president Sharad Pawar, citing "family and personal" reasons. Making it clear that he would not seek an extension to his contract as coach, which was till the World Cup, he termed the job as "one of the most challenging coaching positions in world cricket". He did not forget to thank both the board and the players, saying that the BCCI allowed him the "honour of coaching the Indian cricket team over the past 22 months". "I am grateful to the players with whom I have worked in this time for the challenges that they presented me with and which I tried to meet in a professional, methodical and interesting way in the interests of the team and the individual," he added. This comes a day after former skipper Sachin Tendulkar came out openly against Chappell's reported statement that the team's senior players were acting like mafia and lacked commitment. The 57-year-old former Aussie captain had taken over the job from John Wright 22 months back. (ANI)
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