Sourav Ganguly didn’t want to work hard: Greg Chappell

Sourav Ganguly

Former India head coach Greg Chappell said that he had been offered a new contract by the BCCI but did not take it up because he did not "need that kind of stress".

Chappell's tenure as India's head coach between 2005 and 2007 was marked by a fractious relationship with many of the team's senior players, particularly Sourav Ganguly, who was removed from his role of captain and dropped from the team.

Greg Chappell

"The message from the players was loud and clear, ‘We don't want change'. Even though the board offered me a new contract, I decided that I did not need that kind of stress," Chappell said on the Cricket Life Stories podcast.

"The two years in India were challenging on every front. The expectations were ridiculous. Some of the issues were around Sourav being captain. He didn't particularly want to work hard. He didn't want to improve his cricket. He just wanted to be in the team as captain, so that he could control things," he added.

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