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Cricket legend <keyword id="74016" type="General" weightage="100" keywordseo="greg-chappell" source="Orion">Greg Chappell</keyword> has revealed going through a financial struggle with his friends pitching in to set up an online fundraising platform to "enhance his last few years", according to a report. The 75-year-old former Australia captain, who also had a controversial stint as the head coach of the Indian team from 2005-2007, admitted that he is doing fine but is certainly not living a life of luxury as a result of his cricketing career. "I'm not on the bones of my a**e," <keyword id="39928" type="General" weightage="80" keywordseo="chappell" source="Orion">Chappell</keyword> told News Corp. "I certainly don't want it to sound like we're in desperate straits, because we're not - but we're not living in luxury either. I think most people assume that, because we played cricket, that we are all living in the lap of luxury. While I'm certainly not crying poor, we're not reaping in the benefits that today's players are," he said. According to the report, Chappell "reluctantly" agreed to a GoFundMe page being set up for him, along with a testimonial lunch held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) last week - hosted by <keyword id="1698935" type="General" weightage="50" keywordseo="eddie-mcguire" source="Orion">Eddie McGuire</keyword> and attended by cricket greats, including brothers Ian and Trevor. Chappell further said he is not the only player from his era who experienced financial difficulties, even though the landscape of professional cricket has come a long way since his retirement. "It is just my friends who realised that we didn't get a lot and just to make sure that Judy and I were comfortable in our retirement," Chappell said. "To be fair, there are others of our era who are in more dire circumstances that could do with the help and I don't think the game has done enough for players of that era. Particularly in relation to the comparison with today's era." "I believe the players that set the scene for what's happening today, should probably be recognised for the role they played in getting the game to where it is today," Chappell added. Pacer Dennis Lillee, wicketkeeper <keyword id="553086" type="General" weightage="50" keywordseo="rod-marsh" source="Orion">Rod Marsh</keyword>, and Chappell were part of an iconic trio that defected to Kerry Packer's World Series Cricket in the late 1970s. But unlike Lillee and Marsh, Chappell didn't receive a fundraising testimonial at the end of his career to help set him up after retiring from cricket. A report in news.com.au quotes Chappell's friends saying that he is doing it tougher than an Australian sporting legend ever should. "Greg is a very proud man. He's doing it tougher than what he says," Chappell's friend <keyword id="19275796" type="General" weightage="50" keywordseo="peter-maloney" source="Orion">Peter Maloney</keyword> said. The Australian great also runs the Chappell Foundation, which raises funds for homelessness charities. But the foundation makes sure every cent is distributed each year and Chappell doesn't keep any money for himself. "The Chappell Foundation is run by Darshak Mehta and 100 per cent of the money that is raised gets distributed," Maloney said. "They distribute it annually so at the end of each year, they don't leave any money and they're starting afresh." "If you put your name to a foundation you're entitled to take some money out of it. But Greg hasn't taken a cent out of it, even though he could have. "I guess that was the irony that he was the face of it and turning up to every function and he's raising all this money while he didn't have a hell of a lot himself. "Put it this way, we will probably end up raising about $250,000 out of it, and it will significantly enhance his last few years," Maloney added. Chappell scored 24 centuries across 87 Tests during the 1970s and 80s and led Australia 48 times. He retired from Tests in January 1984 ass the highest run-getter (7110) in Australian Test history, surpassing Sir Donald Bradman's record of 6996 runs. 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Legendary Greg Chappell facing financial struggle; friends launch fundraising campaign

Till the BCCI finds a permanent coach, former captain <keyword id="19692" type="PERSON" weightage="80" keywordseo="Ravi-Shastri">Ravi Shastri</keyword> has been retained as Director of the Indian cricket team for Bangladesh tour starting June 10. 
 
He is a stop-gap arrangement for the tour till BCCI finds a successor to Duncan Fletcher, whose tenure ended earlier this year after the World Cup. 
 
Earlier this year, Shastri served as Team Director during the tour of Australia and the subsequent World Cup. 
 
"The BCCI wishes to inform that Mr. Ravi Shastri, former India Captain, has been appointed as Director of the Indian cricket team for the tour of Bangladesh, starting on 10 June 2015," BCCI Secretary Anurag Thakur said in a statement. 
 
The BCCI will appoint a new coach only after consulting the newly-formed advisory committee of the body, which comprises cricketing greats Sachin Tendulkar, Sourav Ganguly and VVS Laxman. 
 
India will play one Test and three One-Day Internationals in Bangladesh from June 10. 
 
Meanwhile, Shastri has represented India in 80 Tests and 150 ODIs for India and was part of the side, which lifted the 1983 World Cup. 
 
He had travelled with the Indian team to Bangladesh in 2007 also as cricket manager after Greg Chappell resigned from the coach's post following the World Cup debacle that year. 
 
Tendulkar, Ganguly and Laxman were inducted into the BCCI to guide the Board. 
 
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Manchester: The one quality that Greg Chappell admired most about <keyword id="10138" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Mahendra-Singh-Dhoni">Mahendra Singh Dhoni</keyword> was his fearlessness. 
 
The former India coach, who was instrumental in grooming Dhoni during the early part of his career, maintained that the wicketkeeper-batsman was so confident of his own ability that he didn't fear failure. And Chappell maintains, that is what made Dhoni the superstar he is today. 
 
The other aspect of Dhoni that impressed his critics and fans alike was his rustic charm and uncomplicated approach to the game. Almost 10 years down the line, half of it as a leader, Dhoni seems to have undergone a complete metamorphosis. 
 It is difficult to relate the 'Commander-in-chief' of the Indian team that capitulated to England in under three days at <keyword id="2023" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Old-Trafford">Old Trafford</keyword> to the fearless warrior, who in spite of not being in good form, had promoted himself and played an awe-inspiring knock to win the World Cup final in 2011. 
 
It seems like they are two different persons. They are not, for Dhoni is not a split-personality. It is just that this wonderfully gifted cricketer, a genuine by-product of limited-overs cricket, is a complete misfit in classical whites - both as a player as well as captain. 
 
India's latest loss -- the 16th under Dhoni -- makes you wonder how long he can continue in this role. With 13 away losses under his belt, Dhoni is already India's worst Test captain in terms of overseas assignments. And at this rate, Dhoni could well end up becoming the worst-ever captain -- in terms of most away losses (16) -- by the end of the tour of Australia later this year. 
 
It would be unfair to single out Dhoni for losing abroad when this has been the bane of Indian cricket, but the fact remains that in spite of being in charge for five years in all formats of the game, Dhoni remains a passive captain, who is generally happy to wait and see rather than being proactive. 
 
He is not a great tactician, nor a good student of the game. 
 
OVERALL (As Captain) MATCHES: 57 WON: 27 LOST: 16 Drawn: 14 
 
Dhoni often relies on his instincts to baffle the opposition and critics. His selections have often proved to be farcical, changes in batting order have been illogical and bowling changes and field placements confounding. The sum total of all these have resulted in India losing their way before the match, particularly while playing abroad where conditions demand captains to be more hands-on than in the sub-continent where tried and tested methods still guarantee results. 
 Among Dhoni's weird selections, the choice of <keyword id="3031" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Vinay-Kumar">Vinay Kumar</keyword> as the fourth seamer at Perth in 2011-12, the drafting in of an unfit <keyword id="17278" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="RP-Singh">RP Singh</keyword> at The Oval in 2011 and the inclusion of <keyword id="258548" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Stuart-Binny">Stuart Binny</keyword> as the fourth pacer on Trent Bridge's lifeless track, all figure prominently on his list of blunders. 
 
He even had the gall to repeat the Binny blunder at Lord's, but got away with it. To top it all, Dhoni bowled Binny for just 10 overs in the two Tests and cited match situation, rather than poor selection, for the fiasco. 
 At Lord's, Dhoni confounded everyone by standing back to <keyword id="6359948" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Ravindra-Jadeja">Ravindra Jadeja</keyword>, who was bowling into the rough. Though the Indian captain gave a very complicated explanation for his 'brainwave', the simple fact is that with his flawed wicketkeeping technique, Dhoni was not confident of standing up to Jadeja on a fifth-day pitch. 
 
After Indian batsmen surrendered their wickets to Moeen at the Ageas Bowl while trying to play him from the crease in the second innings, Dhoni demanded a more aggressive approach. He and his principal batsmen tried the new methodology at Old Trafford, but with the same consequences. So much for Dhoni's tactics. 
 
Some of his bowling changes have been weird. At Trent Bridge, he kept bowling two pacers with a cluster of close-in fielders against the last-wicket pair of James Anderson and Joe Root. Dhoni let things drift as the duo notched up a world record partnership of 198 runs. 
 
At Lord's, he changed Bhuvneshwar Kumar's end for no reason after he had picked up three wickets from the Nursery End. It was only after Bhuvi was switched back to the end where he was successful from, did he pick three scalps more. 
 
At Old Trafford, when India had reduced England to 170/6, Dhoni chose to bowl his two spinners before lunch on Day 2 and Jadeja and Pankaj after the break, allowing Root and Buttler to get into their groove. 
 
Finally, by refusing to pull up his batsmen for not putting up a fight in the second innings in the fourth Test, Dhoni has clearly devalued Test cricket. "It doesn't matter if you lose the game in three days or five days. You lose a game, you lose a game," was Dhoni's cryptic comment. 
 
That is the new Dhoni for you. Only difference is if he still doesn't fear failure, it is not because he has added to his self-belief. It is just that he is now too powerful to control his own destiny.

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