Greg Chappell, Going Through Financial Crunch, Says 'Cricket Hasn't Done Enough For Players Of Our Era'

Greg Chappell Financial Crunch: The former India coach says that he is not in 'desperate straits' but isn't living in the 'lap of luxury' either.

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Greg Chappell, former head coach of the Indian men's cricket team and the ex-Australian cricketer, is suffering from a financial crunch, it is being learnt. While by his own admission he is not in 'desperate straits', he says that he isn't living in the 'lap of luxury' either. However, the situation is grave enough for a fundraiser page to be set up for Greg Chappell.

"I’m not on the bones of my a**e. I certainly don’t want it to sound like we’re in desperate straits, because we’re not — but we’re not living in luxury either. I think most people assume that, because we played cricket, that we are all living in the lap of luxury. While I’m certainly not crying poor, we’re not reaping in the benefits that today’s players are," Chappell told NewsCorp.

Meanwhile, the 75-year-old said that it was his friends who wanted him and his wife to have better retirement plan since they did not get a lot of funds after their retirmenent.



"It is just my friends who realised that we didn’t get a lot and just to make sure that Judy and I were comfortable in our retirement," Chappell said while talking about the GoFundMe fundraiser page.

Others of our era are in more dire circumstances: Greg Chappell

Chappell then said how he is doing far better than some of the other players of his generation. He reckons that the game hasn't done enough for the players of that era. 

"To be fair, there are others of our era who are in more dire circumstances that could do with the help and I don’t think the game has done enough for players of that era. Particularly in relation to the comparison with today’s era," Chappell said.

"I believe the players that set the scene for what’s happening today, should probably be recognised for the role they played in getting the game to where it is today," he added in the same interview.

Chappell is a veteran of 87 Test matches. In addition, he played 74 ODIs. He scored over 7000 runs in red-ball cricket at the highest level while accmulating over 2000 runs in ODIs.