Harbhajan has some more nasty stories about Chappell

It’s Bash Your Ex-coach season. An uncharitable passage about Greg Chappell from Sachin Tendulkar’s upcoming book has triggered reactions from key members of the Indian team from that era. Now, it’s Harbhajan Singh’s turn to share his version of what went on during the controversial tour of Zimbabwe in 2005 during which Chappell asked Sourav Ganguly to step down as captain.

Harbhajan alleged that some members of the team provided "selective misinformation" to the Australian coach. It was a time which "temporarily destroyed Indian cricket", he said.

"Chappell destroyed Indian cricket to such an extent that it required at least three years to again get back on track. The worst part was some players in that team, who sucked up to the coach and would supply selective misinformation creating bigger rifts," Harbhajan told PTI after an excerpt from Tendulkar's autobiography ‘Playing It My Way’ said Chappell behaved like a “ringmaster” during his tenure.

"When the right time comes, the names will be revealed. Some people thought that just blindly following Chappell would do them world of good without realising that Indian cricket was going nowhere," he said. [/size]Harbhajan then shared a story about catching Chappell writing an email to the BCCI about Ganguly while the Bulawayo Test was going on.“Sourav was batting out there in the middle and this man was typing a critical e-mail against Sourav, sitting right there in that dressing room. He had no interest in the proceedings of the match. How did I get to know, I was sitting next to him and had a suspicion. Once he went to the washroom, I peeped into his laptop and the mail was lying open. I was stunned to see the contents,” Harbhajan said.“Once Sourav came back, I told him about this e-mail and he seemed unaware and equally shocked.”  “There were seven guys that he wanted to get rid of. Sourav was his primary target followed by myself, Virender Sehwag, Ashish Nehra, Zaheer Khan and Yuvraj Singh.”“He was supposed to take India to the next level in international cricket. But during that phase, there was one point of time, we were playing like U-14s.”