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.