Little did Greg Chappell realise, after he resigned as coach of Team India, he would have fun and games at the expense of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). He landed the position of consultant with the Rajasthan Cricket Association’s cricket academy, which must be a high paying assignment.

Then Cricket Australia (CA) decided to use his services as consultant for the Centre of Excellence in Brisbane, another high paying assignment. And he is back in Jaipur with the visiting Australian team as assistant coach and consultant. Reading in the print media that there are mixed feelings in the BCCI about his involvement with the Australian team, as he knows too much about Indian cricket, Greg has started taking pot shots at the establishment.

On the one hand, the outgoing BCCI president, Sharad Pawar has said there is nothing wrong in the RCA laying down the red carpet for the Australian team and Greg being its consultant, while a paid official of the BCCI, Ratnakar Shetty is livid that the Australian team and Greg are being allowed to take Indian cricket for a ride and, in the process, lose the so-called “home advantage.”

Greg, as canny as they come, can see that there is panic in the ranks of Indian cricket officialdom, though the players who will be involved in the four-Test series have held their peace. He has made statements that knowledge is meant to be shared and the game is much bigger than national interest, and is now awaiting the beginning of the series.

If his inputs help Australia retain the Border-Gavaskar Trophy, he will have the last laugh while the BCCI would be made to eat crow. Indian cricket asked for this situation by treating Greg so shabbily.