INDORE, November 7: Former President of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) Raj Singh Dungarpur on Tuesday said the concept of a foreign coach came from the players and not from the board.Speaking to reporters, Dungarpur, who is here to see the National Cricket Academy (NCA) perform in the three-day game against the visiting Zimbabweans from tomorrow, said ``it was Rahul Dravid, who informed the Indian skipper Saurav Ganguly to take a foreign coach.``He suggested John Wright of New Zealand to Ganguly as Wright was coaching Kent at that time. Ganguly in turn spoke to the board, which took Sachin Tendulkar's views on the matter and when Sachin too suggested it was a good idea we decided to try one,'' he added.``Wright was our first choice as he was more committed and not very particular about what the board paid him while the other two - Greg Chappell and Geoff Marsh (both from Australia) could not give us the time we wanted,'' Dungarpur said.``When we interviewed Chappell in Chennai, he sounded more like an administrator than a coach and demanded half a million dollars per year which we could not afford while Marsh could not be with the team for eleven months,'' Dungarpur said.Dungarpur, who had his schooling in Daly college here, was all praise for the NCA boys.
