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🔥Serious

Greg Chappell Drops Sourav Ganguly as India Captain

India (internal)

6 October 2005

India coach Greg Chappell's leaked email to the BCCI recommending Ganguly's removal as captain created a massive controversy that split Indian cricket and eventually led to Ganguly being dropped entirely.

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😂Mild

Greg Chappell's Four Ducks in a Row — Australian Summer 1981-82

Australia

1981-12-12

Australian captain Greg Chappell, the most prolific batsman in the country, made four ducks in a row across Tests and ODIs during the 1981-82 home summer — and seven ducks across the season — earning the temporary nickname 'Chappello'.

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🏏Explosive

The Underarm Bowling Incident

Australia vs New Zealand

1 February 1981

Greg Chappell instructed his brother Trevor to bowl the last ball underarm along the ground to prevent New Zealand from hitting a six to tie the match.

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Chappell Brothers — Twin Centuries Each at Wellington, 1974

Australia vs New Zealand

1-6 March 1974

At the Basin Reserve in March 1974, Greg Chappell made 247 not out and 133, and his elder brother Ian Chappell made 145 and 121 — the only instance in Test history of two brothers each scoring a hundred in both innings of the same match. Greg's 380 runs in the Test stood as the world record for runs by a player in one Test until Graham Gooch's 333 and 123 against India at Lord's in July 1990.

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Bob Massie's 16/137 on Test Debut — Lord's, 1972 Ashes

England vs Australia

22-26 June 1972

Western Australian seam bowler Bob Massie took 16 wickets for 137 runs on Test debut at Lord's in June 1972 — 8/84 in the first innings and 8/53 in the second — bowling Australia to an eight-wicket win in the second Ashes Test. The figures are the second-best match haul in Test history (Jim Laker's 19/90 remains the standard) and remain unsurpassed for a debutant.

#Bob Massie#Australia#1972 Ashes
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Greg Chappell — Century on Test Debut, Perth 1970

Australia vs England

11-16 December 1970

Greg Chappell scored 108 on Test debut at the WACA in December 1970, in the first Test ever played at the Perth ground, becoming the sixth Australian to make a hundred in his first Test innings. Coming in at 5/107 against John Snow and Peter Lever, he added 219 with Ian Redpath for the sixth wicket and converted what had been an under-pressure innings into a position of safety on a debut day later judged the foundation of his Test career.

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