Word: chappelle
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It's fair to say that all the Chappell boys kicked on in their cricket. Trevor played three Tests; Australia has had no shrewder captain than Ian. Greg became a batting maestro, retiring in 1984 after scoring more than 7,000 Test runs at a superlative average against some of...
For Chappell, that theory and others have coalesced into a conviction: Australia's national game is headed for strife. His reasoning goes like this. Life in the suburbs, in those precious hours between school and dinner, has changed. If they're not trekking home from distant schools, kids are more...
That path is littered, Chappell claims, with disaffected kids who are "leaving the sport in droves." Playing standards, he adds, are declining at many levels. The knee-jerk retort - What could be wrong with a system that's kept Australian teams at the peak of world cricket since the mid...
Some 436,000 people play organized cricket in Australia, and junior numbers have been stable for the past five years, says Cricket Australia. But like most sports, cricket loses a disproportionate number of players in their early teens. Many of these could be retained, Chappell argues, if cricket went easier...
(2 of 3) There's a better way, says Chappell, who applied it inadvertently to his younger son 15 years ago. Pestered by Jonathan for cricket lessons, Chappell conducted them on the family tennis court, where the boy's goal was to score 100 and the father's was to...