Chappell scored 7110 test runs, with 755 fours and 16 sixes. Even given that he was a stroke player, I don’t think he’d have scored at more than a 50% strike rate. Which means he’d have scored nearly 4000 runs [7110 - (4*755 + 6*16)] in around 13400 balls [2*7110 - 755 - 16]. It’s probably fair to say that the bulk of those ~ 4000 runs were scored in 1s and 2s, with a few 3s. So let’s have a distribution of 50% singles, 35% twos and 15% threes. That works out to 2000 runs in singles, 1400 in twos and 600 in threes, i.e. he faced a total of 2900 balls for those runs (2000 + 1400/2 + 600/3). That still means he’d have faced nearly 10,000 dot balls. So why on earth couldn’t he have left another go?
Jagadish believes that Greg Chappell should not have reacted to the MP’s remarks about the poor performance of the Indian Cricket Team
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