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Sep 25Liked by Peter Lalor

Greg Chappell is always a good storyteller and writer (as is Ian) and this is no exception. He makes a good point about the Steve Smith 'battery' thing. The players these days play that much cricket, they're like battery-operated robots. They must surely get jaded and even dare I say, bored, by some of the games they play, there's so many of them. I am a bit surprised that Ian Chappell never kept a lot of memorabilia since he's always (thankfully) talking about his playing days or the old days in general.

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I hope Greg finds his cap.

What happened to Davey’s then? Did he just forget where he put it, or was it a ruse?

Haven’t seen anyone strung up for it so assume it wasn’t pinched, and the thief then apprehended

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It was in his bag but not the bag he thought it was in. Never stolen. Never really missing.

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“How convenient!”

Is what a cynic might say. Not I of course…

I hope Greg has not lost his permanently. Although he seems to have a refreshing sense of detachment to possessions?

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Sep 25Liked by Peter Lalor

Curiously enough, I was watching Smith during the most recent ODI in England, and was also pondering on something similar to what Greg said. I think Smith is one of the most fascinating characters in cricket, partly because it must be so tough being in that head of his. I think a lot of top level sport is a bit of a Faustian pact, especially in Smith's case. I do wonder just how much it's taken out of him to be the great player he's become.

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Sep 25Liked by Peter Lalor

Absolutely loved the pod with Greg.

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I could have listened to him for hours. If the internet hadn’t died we may never have stopped.

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Properly interesting, explains himself well, an absolute delight to listen to. And I hope you’ll take it the right way if I suggest you interviewed him well by mostly keeping your own mouths shut!

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It’s a little time capsule. The memory of Rod Marsh in the change room asking DK if he’ll let the umpires tell him what to do is priceless.

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Sep 25Liked by Peter Lalor

Peak Greg Chappell was like watching poetry in motion, batting wise. I tried to model my defensive game on him as a hack park cricketer. He had the most balanced and seemingly effortless perfect technique.

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He had the best on-drive in the game. I couldn't model my batting technique on him but I could copy his walk - purposeful with a ramrod straight back.

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Yeah, but is his Greg Chappell-signed white sun hat missing? I suppose it's also in Warner's bag.

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I've still got a Greg Chappell sun hat. I do the gardening in it.

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Sep 25Liked by Peter Lalor

Wasn't he the part of the fab trio of his era with Sunil Gavaskar and Vivian Richards as the best batsman of his generation

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Fair call.

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Being a 90s kid, I always wondered what was the composition of fab four in 70s and 80s or who were the best batsman of that generation.

Let's do a shortlist from each country

India - Sunil Gavaskar

Australia - Greig Chappell

Windies - Vivian Richards

England - Geoffrey Boycott/David Gower/Graham Gooch

Pakistan - Javed Miandad/Zaheer Abbas

New Zealand - Martin Crowe/John Right

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What did he have to say on his experience as coach of the Indian team ?

Did you ask him that question?

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tells a good story about coaching Sachin and Sehwag

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Wow, then, this should be a fun episode.

Please also get Pigeon and Punter on this.

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