View Full Version : Greg Chappell appointed full time selector
Cousin Jed
23 Aug 2010, 14:09
Source (http://www.cricinfo.com/australia/content/current/story/473798.html)
Greg Chappell is an Australian selector again after being appointed as the new national talent manager.
His management style has impressed Cricket Australia - he began at the Academy in 2008 - and he is the main piece in the selection panel restructure. The four-man unit is chaired by Andrew Hilditch, who will remain in the role, while one of David Boon, Jamie Cox and Merv Hughes is expected to depart in the near future to accommodate Chappell.
Chappell, 62, is Australia's first full-time selector but his job will also encompass talent identification and working with the states. He has already done some of that in his duties with the Centre of Excellence and Australia A.
Selective Retention
23 Aug 2010, 14:16
Delete my thread.
Good and bad news. Chappell shouldn't be as conservative but Hilditch is still chairman so the status quo may stay the same.
frankrizzo
23 Aug 2010, 16:21
Chappell seems to be a rather difficult bloke to deal with which is why he seems to fail as a coach but you can't deny that it when it comes to identifying talent he's up with the best.
But with a selection panel containing the vb bogans and headed by hilditch you wonder what he can achieve.
whats_at_stake
23 Aug 2010, 16:28
Will be a good appointment. Despite his tenure as India's coach ending terribly he argubly remade Zaheer Khan, Sehwag and to a lessor extent Ganguly to the players they are now- determined and hungry to remain in the side and now in career best form in the case of Sehwag and Zaheer Khan.
Will make the tough decisions on players. The only question is whether he will be allowed to.
TheColeTrain
23 Aug 2010, 18:29
Good to see we have a selector who says he is ready to make the hard calls before the Ashes and that players need to earn their place in the side.
Should be some very nervous players ATM who have had a very easy run with the current clowns.
Doodlesweaver
23 Aug 2010, 18:39
Good to see we have a selector who says he is ready to make the hard calls before the Ashes and that players need to earn their place in the side.
Should be some very nervous players ATM who have had a very easy run with the current clowns.
According to some of the Indian fans, I've chatted online with, he was the one behind Raina getting so much time early with the Indian one day team, so he does have a nose for talent.
And he said before the U19 WC that he wanted a squad with potential to play for Aus as seniors not just a team that would win the WC now. He did both I think.
But how much influence he can have when he has three long timers in there I don't know. I'm hoping he's not much of a Mitchell Johnson fan. A bowling unit needs to operate as a team.
Argh! Hilditch is still there!!!
Doodlesweaver
23 Aug 2010, 19:18
Hildy's contract runs till after World Cup.
One thing I remember about Greg Chappell is that when Marcus North was young, Chappell thought he was the best young batsman in Australia. I wonder how he feels about him now.
He's certainly a fan of Steve Smith.
The Governor
24 Aug 2010, 10:50
Ian and Greg Chappell are huge supporters of Stephen Smith. Ian holds the opinion that he bats in a similar fashion to Kevin Douglas Walters and in time, his leg spin bowling will develop with constant exposure to 4 and 5 day cricket!!
Greg Chappell is the best appointment. He has a great eye for young talent, and people forget that he blooded in Dohni and a few young Indian players during his tenure as Indian coach. As a result of India's senior players feeling unhappy with the way he handled team selections, he was forced out of his role. Three years later, India has one of the best test sides in world cricket and they are benefitting from Greg Chappell's hard calls as coach of India.
The next step for Cricket Australia is to revamp the selection panel by cleaning out 3 out of the 4 stooges (Hilditch, Hughes and Cox) in favour of a selection panel that is prepared to make the hard calls for Australian cricket (Chappell, Jones, Boon and Darren Lehmann).
Darren Lehmann would make an excellent choice as an Australian selector.
THE GOVERNOR
The Reaper
29 Aug 2010, 18:22
The next guy would be Steve Waugh.
The main problem with teh current lot of Boon and Hughes is that they are too close to the players and don't want to make the difficult calls.
Belnakor
29 Aug 2010, 20:01
Lehmann would be good, the guy has an awesome cricketing brain
courtjester
1 Sep 2010, 12:50
Ian and Greg Chappell are huge supporters of Stephen Smith. Ian holds the opinion that he bats in a similar fashion to Kevin Douglas Walters and in time, his leg spin bowling will develop with constant exposure to 4 and 5 day cricket!!
Greg Chappell is the best appointment. He has a great eye for young talent, and people forget that he blooded in Dohni and a few young Indian players during his tenure as Indian coach. As a result of India's senior players feeling unhappy with the way he handled team selections, he was forced out of his role. Three years later, India has one of the best test sides in world cricket and they are benefitting from Greg Chappell's hard calls as coach of India.
The next step for Cricket Australia is to revamp the selection panel by cleaning out 3 out of the 4 stooges (Hilditch, Hughes and Cox) in favour of a selection panel that is prepared to make the hard calls for Australian cricket (Chappell, Jones, Boon and Darren Lehmann).
Darren Lehmann would make an excellent choice as an Australian selector.
THE GOVERNOR
Kevin Douglas Walters?
Oh, you mean Dougie!
The Governor
1 Sep 2010, 17:59
Yep.
Dougie Walters.
King Elvis
7 Sep 2010, 11:22
Good appointment; just need to sack the other Clowns now and we might start winning consistently again.
The Governor
10 Sep 2010, 18:03
Andrew Hilditch and Merv Hughes are the clowns of the selection panel whilst David Boon and Jamie Cox appear to have more sense and logic.
Andrew Hilditch hooked himself out of the Australian test team during the 1st test match against New Zealand in 1985. And, since he is married to Bob Simpson's daughter, I think Australian cricket has gone backwards since May 2007.
courtjester
11 Sep 2010, 12:30
Andrew Hilditch and Merv Hughes are the clowns of the selection panel whilst David Boon and Jamie Cox appear to have more sense and logic.
Andrew Hilditch hooked himself out of the Australian test team during the 1st test match against New Zealand in 1985. And, since he is married to Bob Simpson's daughter, I think Australian cricket has gone backwards since May 2007.
Why is Merv a clown? I actually think he makes a lot of sense when talking cricket. Not so sure about Hilditch.
I'm not sure how critical we can be of selectors. Apart from the recent treatment of Phil Hughes, I'm not sure what they could do differently really. I think Chappell's appointment will demand some respect though, which is a good thing.
King Elvis
12 Sep 2010, 19:48
They could've let Stuart Clark play County Cricket instead of sending him to the Pakistan ODI Series.
They shouldn't have played Brett Lee against the Saffers at home.
They shouldn't have played an unfit, out of form Andrew Symonds against the Saffers at home.
They should've dropped North.
There are a bunch of threads on this.
And Merv lost me when he took a tourist group around the French Wine Regions when we were playing Tour Matches before the Ashes, and said it didn't matter, because he didn't need to see all of the games.
Have they made an announcement about which part-time selector has made way for Chappell?
courtjester
13 Sep 2010, 09:07
They could've let Stuart Clark play County Cricket instead of sending him to the Pakistan ODI Series.
They shouldn't have played Brett Lee against the Saffers at home.
They shouldn't have played an unfit, out of form Andrew Symonds against the Saffers at home.
They should've dropped North.
There are a bunch of threads on this.
And Merv lost me when he took a tourist group around the French Wine Regions when we were playing Tour Matches before the Ashes, and said it didn't matter, because he didn't need to see all of the games.
Good points well made! Agree that Clark has been poorly treated. Agree that North probably should have been dropped by now. I think the situation with Symonds was always the desire to have a game breaker, even though inconsistency would be a problem. What was the situation with Lee?
King Elvis
13 Sep 2010, 10:45
Good points well made! Agree that Clark has been poorly treated. Agree that North probably should have been dropped by now. I think the situation with Symonds was always the desire to have a game breaker, even though inconsistency would be a problem. What was the situation with Lee?
Mate, I love Symonds as much as anybody, but they brought him back in against the Saffers when he had no form, and wasn't fit; to the point we bought him in as a batsmen, not an all-rounder.
Binga was pretty much the same - no fitness and no form, throw into the fire against the Saffers, and got belted (and possibly broke down again?).