I meant to say “fans like us” rather than “fans like you”. We are all part of the problem.

Interestingly, Steve Waugh talks several times in his book about occassional dressing room rifts. It is interesting that the Australian press did not bother with that stuff!

Hey, put a bunch of people in a team to work together and sure as night follows day, there will be disagreements and differences of opinion. Think of every team that you have worked on. If these differences are magnified and sensationally analysed (as fans like you and the mediocre Indian press tend to do), then they will get borne out and played out!

The problem is that every media outlet wants to outdo the other. The result is a plethora of twisted-knickers and burned-careers.

And yes, Greg Chappell may have been warned. But he was candid in an interview that he was happy to use the media and “various other channels” of communication to communicate with players. He lost the battle then and there. There was only one way for him out of that mess and that was to head out of the door!

Why is there even a question addressed to Ravi Sastri ? Has anyone asked this sort of question to Ponting or Vaughn ? We need to think about that !!

Greg was apparently warned ahead of time to keep quiet about his words. But somehow, his words were amplified and got back to the players.