Coach potato

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Finally, the cookie crumbled. At last, the fakeness got exposed beyond it's base layers , one more time. This time hopelessly beyond redemption. His love for television ( the former Indian cricket coach Greg Chappell must be a couch potato, I assume) and media spotlight became his proverbial noose. This time it was Virendra Sehwag, the down-to-earth unassuming bloke with a simpleton air about him, who called a dirty spade a dirty spade with trademark simplicity. Viru reiterated what we all now know about Mr Underhand Captain, that Chappell flouted basic privacy and human trust of his own young bunch , and shamelessly played with people's careers by talking to his press caucus , who further added their own ingredients to the fusion cuisine. The incredibly thick-skinned Chappell, whose hide must be tougher than those marauding deadly Oz crocodiles in marshy waters, has called it quits. About time too.

I thought Chappell took the cake, bakery and the biscuit factory when he returned with his conventional fanfare as the coach of RCA, largely buttressed by savvy political interests and blurred vision of RCA officials. And of course, his media cronies who had surreptitiously played games, unethical partners in power-broking. After deviously dividing the Indian boys in the dressing room, literally hounding some players into virtual oblivion, playing the media gallery like a pirouetting dancer in Moulin Rouge , reducing Sourav Ganguly briefly into a national pariah, and then ensuring the Boys in Blue get just a fleeting stay at the Caribbean islands during the World Cup campaign ( his prime objective, incidentally) , Guru Greg ,I thought had teflon perversity to return to Indian shores. And even comment on India's cricketing fortunes. The ultimate nadir was when he became the strategic consultant to the visiting Australian team on their last trip, as if he knew some inside vulnerabilities of the Indian team that no one did. That the Aussies were humbled decisively 2-0 was a manifestation of how little he knew his own backyard. Or the changing face of Indian cricket post his humiliating departure , and the breath of fresh air under the new leadership of MS Dhoni. Continue reading below

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