Ranking top 10 controversial coaches in cricket history

1. Greg Chappell

Well in the early years of the 2000s, the former India head coach John Wright had worked and gelled tremendously well with team India that again led the BCCI to search for a foreign coach. While there might have been other prolific options to pick and choose, skipper Sourav Ganguly seemed to be reluctant to bring Chappell as the next head coach.

Also, with the story first unfolding itself when skipper Ganguly had travelled to Australia for the 2003-04 tour, it is believed that Chappell had given Ganguly a plethora of recommendations along with some technical suggestions regarding the skipper’s own batting that eventually had made Ganguly score some exceptional runs. Overall, while the Indian team surely had etched one of their best away tours, skipper Ganguly after using Greg Chappell’s advice got utterly convinced regarding the Aussie’s appointment.

However, as it is known that the skipper eventually had dug his own grave, Greg Chappell had immediately started attacking Dad and his fruitful captaincy.

In a nutshell, Chappell asked Ganguly to step down from the captaincy along with issuing a statement that meant India should field their best XI although at the expense of Sourav Ganguly. Later on, when Dada had openly confessed about getting pressurized to leave the captaincy, Greg Chappell had responded with an email to the BCCI in which he clearly stated that Sourav Ganguly is both physically and mentally unfit to lead team India further.

Eventually, while his feud with Dada had resulted in an omission where Ganguly was abhorrently dropped from the team, even the other players seemed to be unhappy under the Aussie’s overall regime. From players like Virender Sehwag criticizing the coach for tweaking his overall technique to Sachin Tendulkar expressing his disappointment regarding his batting positing, perhaps almost every senior member of that team seemed to have got displeased with Chappell’s controversial style of coaching.