7 Most dramatic incidents in Indian cricket

3. Chappell-Ganguly power struggle

Marking one of the most talked about coach-captain power tussles, Greg Chappell and Sourav Ganguly were embroiled in a bitter war in the years 2005-06. Chappell was allegedly a terrible man-manager and preferred to exercise the policy of “Divide and Rule” to keep himself in a position of authority.

The dispute between the two resulted in Ganguly being replaced by Rahul Dravid as captain in November 2005, following which Ganguly was dropped from both the ODI and Test teams. Sachin Tendulkar, later corroborated to Ganguly’s version of the events in his autobiography, by stating that Chappell had wanted to remove Dravid from captaincy a few months before the 2007 World Cup.