Book Events: Meet Greg Chappell and Ken Piesse for the Adelaide launch of ‘The Chappell Chronicles’ (Nov 18)

 

 

MEET GREG CHAPPELL AND KEN PIESSE 

for his home-town launch of his latest, classic book
The Chappell Chronicles, a 300-page softback, $35  

 

On Tuesday, 18 November,
at Dymocks, 101-107 Rundle Mall, from 5.30pm

 

Book through this link:

https://www.trybooking.com/DGUURI

 

 

In The Chappell Chronicles, Greg:

 

• Slates Indian icon Sachin Tendulkar for ‘playing for himself’
  

  ‘In Australia we were brought up to put team ahead of self. It felt like a line had been crossed.’ (2007 World Cup lead-up: Greg as India’s head coach, p104-105)

• Exults the terrifying speed of Jeff Thomson:
  

   ‘It was the first time I’d seen a bowler truly terrify a batting order… his sheer pace was violent, destructive and frightening. He tore through us like a cyclone, taking a seven-for.’ (SS deciding match, Feb 74, NSW v Qld,  SCG, p129-131)

• Says his infamous order to brother Trevor to finish an ODI with an underarm still haunts him today. It was a personal protest at the lack of support for him as captain and the excessive amount of one-day cricket his team was being forced to play.
  

  ‘Do I regret it? Yes. Not for myself, but for those – brother Trevor especially – who bore the brunt of the fallout from my moment of poor judgment. I wasn’t fit to be Australia’s captain.’ P19-24

• Rates brother Ian Chappell as a superior all-round player.
  

  ‘Skill wise I always considered him better than me. Under pressure there were fewer you’d want batting or your life. He always wanted to be I the contest and wasn’t afraid of anyone or anything.’ (p14-16)

• Believes Cameron Green is simply ‘too tall’ to regularly oppose the new ball, from the opening or No.3 slots.
  

  ‘If he has a weakness it is against the short ball from the genuine pace bowlers. He will work it out in time but I’m not sure I would want to risk losing a genuine Test captaincy candidate and a one-in-a-generation cricketer to an experiment.’ (p240-241)

• Ranks many cricket administrators, especially from India, as ‘avaricious’ and ‘shamelessly chasing the TV dollar to the detriment of the game’.‘Test cricket’s days are decidedly numbered,’ he says.  ‘
  

  (They) are clueless and callously not doing enough to keep our greatest format (Test cricket) alive while demanding more calendar days for (T20) rubbish and more rubbish.’ (p241-242)

• Says the ‘tough’ love from his cricket loving father Martin Chappell helped to make him the cricketer he was.
  

   ‘He pushed us all hard but never too far. He was sparing with his praise. Something I struggled with at times.’ (p6-7)

 

Forty years after his last Test match, Greg, 77, remains one of th foremost voices of Australian and, for many, the best since Bradman.

 

The Chappell Chronicles by Greg Chappell and Ken Piesse is published by Wilkinson Books. It is Greg’s 10th  book and the 90th book Ken has written, edited or published.

 

Copies of the book can be purchased from the publisher HERE

 

 

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