Former Indian cricketer, Mohammad Kaif has revealed why John Wright was respected by everyone whereas Greg Chappell failed to be a good coach. Kaif played most of his game under the stewardship of both Wright and Chappell in early 2000s. The arrival of New Zealand’s John Wright in 2000 introduced Indian cricket to a different style – coaches could actually be friendly rather than authoritarian, they were mentors rather than leaders.

Whereas Chappell was coach of Team India for two controversy-riddled years between 2005 and 2007 in which he clashed with several senior members of the team.

Kaif said Chappell would have been a good batting coach for India and that his inability to understand the culture of the Indian team did not work in the best interests of the team.

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During a chat with Times of India, Kaif said, “Chappell could have been a good batting coach. But he spoilt his name, as he could not run the team properly, he couldn’t understand the Indian culture and lacked good man-management skills and hence didn’t prove to be a good coach.”

Mohammad Kaif went on to explain what were the differences between Chappell and his predecessor John Wright. Under Wright’s coaching, Sourav Ganguly led the Indian team which went onto win numerous bilateral trophies and also entered the final of 2003 World Cup as well.

The former cricketer said, “People respected John Wright because he coordinated well with the players and let Ganguly the captain to lead the team from the front.”

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Kaif isn’t the first India cricketer to take a dig at the Australian in recent times as earlier, Harbhajan had referred to Chappell’s time with Team India as ‘worst days of Indian cricket’.