Greg Chappell's second innings in India
Greg Chappell is in Jaipur as the head coach of the Rajasthan Cricket Academy, the brainchild of Rajasthan Cricket Association president and influential BCCI vice-president Lalit Modi
Cricinfo
25-Feb-2013
Greg Chappell is in Jaipur as the head coach of the Rajasthan Cricket Academy, the brainchild of Rajasthan Cricket Association president and influential BCCI vice-president Lalit Modi. Prem Panicker finds out what Chappell's plans for the academy are. Read the interview here.
Rediff.com also looks at some of the uncoventional exercises Chappell and Ian Frazer have prescribed for Rajasthan's young hopefuls.
"What you get in a gym are social muscles, the kind that looks good on a beach, or in a T-shirt, but are valueless on the sports field. What you really need are functional muscles, the sort that builds you up for what you do on the cricket field, and this circuit is one of the steps to getting there."
For instance, Chappell points out, when you run over the uneven ground, and then jump into a pit that is a good seven feet deep, you are working out the "back chain muscles" of the leg - the ones that, beginning with the glutes, go down the back of your thighs, the knee, the calves, all the way down to the sole of your foot.
It is these muscles that take tremendous strain when playing.
And Chappell finds time to take a swipe at his former employers - the BCCI - in an interview to Vijay Tagore in the Daily News & Analysis.
Unlike the BCCI, my present employer Lalit is very committed and passionate about the academy and I’m happy to be giving six months of an year for three years.
He went on to say:
It’s difficult to work under the BCCI which was not willing to change for its own compulsive reasons.