3 Important aspects from Greg Chappell’s era that helped India in the longer run

1. A belief in the young players:

Starting from 1999 to the end of 2007, India had won as few as two multi-format tournaments – the 2002 NatWest Trophy and the 2007 World T20. The 2002 Champions Trophy and the 2003 Tri-series in Bangladesh were shared due to washed out finals. The two tournaments that India won came with help of efforts from youngest players in the squad.

This was how India fared during what was considered to be golden days of Indian cricket with some of the players ruling the World cricket. But those two tournaments showed the value of having the young players. Neither of them were during the Greg Chappell’s tenure but the names he backed and had an eye did surely help India in longer-run.

Chappell rated RP Singh and Suresh Raina highly who played a crucial role in India’s triumphs during the 2007 WT20 and in the 2011 CWC respectively. The Australian also backed Rohit Sharma to achieve huge success who went on to play a couple of crucial knock in that 2007 WT20 and is currently the best opening batsman in ODI cricket.