Former Australia captain Greg Chappell leaves international cricket in style, scoring 182 in his final Test innings for Australia, against Pakistan at the SCG in early 1984
When I played the test match with me dad I always had Greg Chappell as at no 1. He was my hero growing up in the 70’s/80s . I remember you could iron the transfers of your favorite cricket 🏏 player on ya T-shirt getting out of Sunday times, or was it the western mail? Or it could of been the daily news? How times have changed in cricket.
When he became the first Australian to reach 7000 test runs, I don't think there were too many others to have done so apart from Boycott, Sobers, Hammond and Gavaskar.
@gemma harden Thanks Gemma, he was quite a batsman that's for sure. If WSC had occurred 10 years earlier than what it did, then his one day record would most likely be the equal of Ricky Ponting's.
@gemma harden Yeah test cricket is definitely the ultimate. I mentioned it because Greg is unjustly forgotten in a who's who discussion of our best one day players.
You just included them ...lol .... you are right though, apart from on the 1972 tour to the Carribean, he never faced the West Indies in anything but their full pomp. Even in 1975-76, when windies lost 5-1 here, they still had Roberts and a talented rookie called Michael Holding.
As an Australian I wish there were videos of the Australia v Pakistan series in Pakistan in late 1982 when Pakistan won 3-0. Zaheer Abbas, Javed Miandad and Mohsin Khan all scored heavily, Abdul Qadir took 22 wickets and Imran Khan 8 wickets in the last test. The victory margins were 9 wickets, an innings and 3 runs and 9 wickets again and it was truly a comprehensive thrashing. In the 1980s even the might West Indies had to settle for a drawn series in Pakistan and all other comers were trounced.
I can't remember too many better innings in a players last test match than this. He was imperious that day. What an incredible batsman he was, especially when you consider the quality of bowling he faced.
' ... especially when consider the quality of bowling he faced ... ' Over his whole career for sure, but certainly not this innings. I am wondering if he is still the only batsman to make a ton in both his first and last test? I think Javed Miandad was the first to make one in his first and 100th test, but don't quote me on that one.
The best coach india could have had. He was responsible for the young blood in indian cricket but the slimey ganguly and the board of cricket played politics.He was way ahead of his time.
Imran was playing as a batsman in the later part of that series since he was recovering from an injury. The Pakistan attack was limited without him. People forget though that once Chappell, Lillee and Marsh left there was a big void in the Aussie team for a while. You look at the team and apart from Border almost no one else was in the team two years later as a result of the South African rebel tour. It took a good 2-3 years for Australia to rebuild with Border, David Boon, Steve Waugh, Dean Jones, Geoff Marsh, McDermott and Bruce Reid as the core of the team.
No one forgot that, what are you talking about. You also forgot to mention that the rebel tour to South Africa took many of the test players out of the game for 3 years during that period.
0.16 min - talk about a reluctant ha ha handshake. 3.01 min - love how Chappell 'thanks' Mohsin for helping in going past Don Bradman's tally. haha ! Love the human angle in sports, especially cricket.
I watched mesmerized as Greg made his first hundred in Perth, and vividly remember his last test - again watched with complete rapture. A great cricketer.
@@White742 lol are you serious, why are you so dumb? You mentioned that Indians weren't skilled to win a tournament. If Indians werent skilled how come they won 2011 world cup and 2013 champions trophy under different coaches but almost the same team like sehwag, tendulkar, dhoni, yuvraj, harbhajan, zaheer khan etc which were there under greg chappel also? Morally this idiot demotivated the team which resulted in huge losses during his tenure.
I think he is the only batsman who scored century at debut and at farewell. He is very graceful batsman. Dilip Venkasarkar, Gudappa Viswanath , Mohammed Azarudin , David Gower, Mike Atherton and martin Crowe are all in the same category but chapell leads them all.
@@anekethchellamani1876 Wrong ... I just googled it and apparently so did Bill Ponsford, Mohammad Azharuddin (being Indian I thought you would be all over that one :) as well as a player called Reggie Duff (who I have never heard of because he played prior to World War 1). So Chappell was not even the first, so why did the commentators of the day claim he was I wonder?