{"id":235231,"date":"2025-10-31T04:06:40","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T04:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/235231\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T04:06:40","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T04:06:40","slug":"india-control-world-cricket-greg-chappell-echoes-chris-broads-explosive-charge-on-bccis-power-play-cricket-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/235231\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;India control world cricket&#8217;: Greg Chappell echoes Chris Broad\u2019s explosive charge on BCCI&#8217;s power play | Cricket News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/greg-chappell.jpg\" alt=\"'India control world cricket': Greg Chappell echoes Chris Broad\u2019s explosive charge on BCCI's power play\" title=\"File Pic: Former India head coach Greg Chappell\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>File Pic: Former India head coach Greg Chappell NEW DELHI: Former India coach Greg Chappell has reignited debate over the BCCI\u2019s influence in world cricket, backing ex-ICC match referee <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/chris-broad\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Broad<\/a>\u2019s claim that Indian administrators have long used their power to manipulate outcomes. Go Beyond The Boundary with our YouTube channel. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@toisports\" rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" target=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">SUBSCRIBE NOW!<\/a>In an explosive revelation to the Sydney Morning Herald, Chappell recalled how former BCCI and ICC chief Jagmohan Dalmiya had offered to \u201creduce Sourav Ganguly\u2019s suspension\u201d at the start of his coaching tenure in 2005.<\/p>\n<p>Bombay Sport Exchange | &#8216;The unconditional leader of Indian cricket&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDalmiya offered to have his suspension reduced so that he could go to Sri Lanka at the start of my tenure,\u201d Chappell said. \u201cI said no, I don\u2019t want to rot the system; he has to do his time. Dalmiya seemed okay for him to miss.\u201d The incident, according to Chappell, occurred just before India\u2019s 2005 tri-series in Sri Lanka \u2014 marking the start of a turbulent period that also saw Ganguly dropped from the team and a public rift erupted between the two.Chappell\u2019s revelation comes on the heels of Chris Broad\u2019s bombshell interview with The Telegraph (London), in which the former England cricketer alleged that he was once told over the phone to \u201cbe lenient\u201d on Ganguly\u2019s India team for a slow over-rate offence. \u201cI got a phone call saying, \u2018be lenient, find some time because it\u2019s India.\u2019 So we had to find time and bring it down below the threshold,\u201d Broad said. \u201cThe next game, it happened again \u2014 and I was told, \u2018just do him.\u2019 There were politics involved right from the start.\u201dBroad\u2019s claims paint a picture of behind-the-scenes interference in cricket\u2019s judicial processes, and Chappell\u2019s remarks have added further weight to those accusations. Reflecting on the sport\u2019s power dynamics, Broad warned that India\u2019s financial clout had effectively placed them \u201cin control of the ICC.\u201d\u201cIndia got all the money and have now taken over the ICC,\u201d Broad said. \u201cIt\u2019s a much more political position now than it ever has been.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"File Pic: Former India head coach Greg Chappell NEW DELHI: Former India coach Greg Chappell has reignited debate&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":235232,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[99654,97742,1721,69507,99657,99655,99656,99658,99659,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-235231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-bcci-influence-in-world-cricket","tag-chris-broad","tag-cricket","tag-cricket-politics","tag-financial-clout-of-india-in-cricket","tag-greg-chappell-comments","tag-india-cricket-power-dynamics","tag-india-icc-control","tag-sourav-ganguly-suspension","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}