Mumbai: Team India's former coach Greg Chappell didn't wish to comment on what Sourav Ganguly, one of the members of the BCCI’s Cricket Advisory Committee who will suggest who should be Team India’s head coach, said on the Australian's tenure as Team India coach.
Chappell didn't want to know how Ganguly, as a captain in 2005, had messed up while proposing his name.
"I have no comment at this stage," Chappell said from Australia.
"I once had an opportunity to select the coach. I thought I messed it up in 2005," Ganguly said in Kolkata on Tuesday.
Though he didn't take any name, it was more than obvious that he was referring to Greg Chappell, who succeeded John Wright.
Ranbir Singh Mahendra, the BCCI chief then, however, has no regrets on picking Chappell as India coach.
Speaking from Bhiwani, he said, "We had appointed a committee (Sunil Gavaskar, Ravi Shastri and S. Venkatraghavan) and all members of the committee were unanimous on this choice."
"He was the most competent man at the time and his presentation did impress all of us."
"Chappell was doing fine till his differences with Ganguly surfaced and I was also being told by someone that the team was not united but that was only the hearsay we had, and whatever it is, the issues were sorted out thereafter."
"I don't want to comment on why Ganguly has opened the chapter again or should have said so now. But I can tell you we never ever felt that we made a wrong choice. We never repented for our decision. He was found better than all others who were interviewed," Ranbeer Singh Mahendra concluded.
