Greg Chappell

And a lot of other people made sacrifices, not least of all our families and so on.

But the love was imbued in me from a very early age by our father.

And he sort of,

either in words or action, taught us a hell of a lot about the game and the importance of the game and team sport and particularly cricket.

Because it happened over such a long time, it was a microcosm of life.

All the things that happened to you in life happened to you on the cricket field and in a cricket match and over a cricket season and over a cricket career.

So the guys that made it to the highest level had sort of...

You didn't need a no dickheads policy because most of the dickheads have been lost along the way.

You know, the guys that made it to the top were the ones who really had a love for the game.

And I've never lost that, and I still have that love for the game, and I really care about where it's going.

I am a traditionalist, but I suppose I'm also a realist.

You know, we've gone a long way.

I mean, I remember having a meeting at Cricket Australia headquarters years ago around the start of the Big Bash.

And the marketing team was selling this group that I was part of, you know, the idea of the future and, you know, Big Bash and, you know, balls going into the crowd being kept by the patrons and so on.

And the comment was made by this one particular person that cricket's, what is it, stale, male and pale.

And, you know, there's no innovation.

There's, you know, it's really such a staid game and

I went on to give them a history lesson just about how in the 50 years or so longer, probably that stage 60 years that I'd been involved in the game, we'd gone from one format

to two formats.

We were just going into the third format.