Greg now a hot tip for ACA post

The interview also indicated that the BCCI’s bid to rope in the former Australian captain as a consultant for the National Cricket Academy (NCA) may go in vain and Chappell might join the Australian Cricket Academy (ACA) as its head coach.

According to reports, Chappell is a clear favourite to succeed Tim Nielsen, who leaves the job to take over the Australian team’s reins from John Buchanan after the World Cup. Chappell, however, said: “I am not making decisions yet but after a while I will look at the options.”

Meanwhile, he asserted that his troubled tenure with the Indian team has not turned him off coaching. “I don’t feel (cheesed off), not at all,” he said.

He also criticised the Indian media for exaggerating his medical check-up. “It was just a minor thing that they obviously made into something bigger. The health is fine, there is no drama other than what the media made of it. I made sure I was in good health to fly back to Australia,” Chappell said.

Now, a Chappell hate-site

Kolkata: Call it the darker side of obsessive cricket fanaticism, or an attempt at keeping Indian cricket’s pot of controversies boiling, now here’s a website (firegregchappell.com) where you can vent your anger on Greg Chappell. The website lampooning Chappell comes a year after a Mumbai-based online site maker sent ripples across the country with the now-famous (wehatesourav.com), a hate campaign attacking Sourav Ganguly. —Nadim Siraj