Dileep Premachandran looks at the stormy waters that surround the new India coach

Dileep Premachandran
It was a moment so taut with tension that it could have been from Ingmar Bergman’s harrowing exploration of a collapsing relationship in Scenes From A Marriage. It was November 2006, a day before India played South Africa at St. George’s Park in Port Elizabeth.
The ODI series had begun in awful fashion, with the tourists already 2-0 down. The optimism of the first year of Greg Chappell’s tenure as coach was fast receding, and in more ways than one, this was ...