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BCCI warns Greg Chappell

Ganguly most hurt over comments

Nagpur: The Board of Control for Cricket in India on Thursday warned coach Greg Chappell against making ``unwarranted'' remarks in the media about former captain Sourav Ganguly and asked him to ``confine his comments to the performance of the team.''

The formal warning to Chappell was issued by the BCCI through a letter barely a day after the controversial remarks on Ganguly was published.

Unwarranted comments

``We have written to Chappell regarding his interview in The Guardian and particularly his comments on Ganguly. We feel those remarks were unwarranted,'' BCCI secretary Niranjan Shah said. ``We have asked him (Chappell) to confine his comments to the performance of the team. And we are confident that these things will not be repeated in the future.''

Shah said Ganguly was especially annoyed over Chappell's comments that the former Indian skipper wanted to cling on to captaincy because of financial reasons.

In the interview, Chappell had said that he advised Ganguly to step down as captain (during the tour of Zimbabwe last September) in his own interestThe former Australian captain also said, ``what I didn't realise at that stage was how utterly important to his life and finances being captain was.'' — PTI

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