Greg Chappell to make out Sachin Tendulkar's secrecy

Former India coach Greg Chappell will address the out of form Aussie cricketers before the Boxing Day Test on December 26 to make known them the chink in Sachin Tendulkar's armour.

According a report in Daily Telegraph, Chappell will speak to the Australian team next week on how to undertake the likes of Tendulkar and Virender Sehwag in the grueling Test series start in Melbourne.

"Chappell will address the Australian squad for the first Test next week and he is the one man with the information to expose the champion (Tendulkar) Australia never feel they have got to the bottom of," the report said.

"To Australian bowlers Tendulkar has been the master they have never mastered. His record next to Australia in Tests - he averages 60.6 with 11 centuries in 31 Tests - makes him the greatest Aussie basher of his making," it said.

Chappell, in his just free memoirs 'Fierce Focus', has said that Tendulkar was "amazingly fragile" during a particular phase in his career when he had to cope with stressed form and a tennis elbow injury.

According to the report, Chappell, who had a contentious three-year stint as India coach from 2005-07, will be able to give insight into the character of the Indian team as well as the volatile opener Virender Sehwag, a player he greatly well-liked.

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BCCI turn down Sunil Gavaskar's insist

The BCCI has generally shot down former India captain Sunil Gavaskar`s insist of a whopping USD 1 million fee per season for media behavior connecting Indian Premier League.

The decision was taken throughout BCCI`s last AGM and the matter was nullify but it again came up for conversation as the well-known opener had written to the board difficult a fee of USD 1 million which he claim had been promise by former BCCI president Sharad Pawar.

"Even though the matter had been nullify earlier but the president guilty the working committee on the floor that Mr Gavaskar has written one more letter difficult a fee of USD 1 million. The President told us that he didn`t want any argument and placed the matter on the table. Everyone was of the opinion that this demand is undesirable," a BCCI official prefers anonymity said on Monday.

He also knowledgeable that, "Former president Shashank Manohar was ask about Gavaskar`s insist and that a promise was made by Mr Pawar. Manohar in turn has knowledgeable the BCCI that he has for myself spoken to the ICC president and the latter has deprived of about any such promise."

Currently, the likes of Gavaskar and Ravi Shastri, as per a agreement with BCCI, get Rs 1 crore per season for media behavior involving IPL.

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Anil Kumble resigned as NCA chairman

Former India captain and spin fable Anil Kumble has submissive from the chairmanship of National Cricket Academy on Monday citing difference.

According to reports, BCCI's working committee has acknowledged Kumble's acknowledgment. MP Pandove has been selected as the interim chairman of NCA.

"I had a three-year vision to make NCA a better. I had made 10 presentations during my term as chairman with the hope that my vision could be conventional. Even on Sunday I had discuss this at the NCA conference in Chennai. But it was not in position with the rest of the board," Kumble told PTI.

"I feel that it made no sense to be a chairman when I was not being heard. I had no other option but to move on in life," he added.

Earlier, Kumble, who is also the president of Karnataka State Cricket Association, cited "lack of time" as the reason behind his resignation. One of India's cricketing legends, Kumble was recently in news for difference of interest charges leveled against him by some quarters in the media. Kumble also runs his own players' organization company and also works as a mentor with Royal Challengers Bangalore.

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Cricket-Australia's Cummins suffer more injury blow

Pace man Pat Cummins will miss part of Australia's four-test series next to India after scans exposed his heel injury was more serious than predictable and would take longer to recover.

The 18-year-old suffer the injury during his six-wicket first appearance in Australia's second test win against South Africa last month but had been expected to be obtainable for the opening test next to India in Melbourne on Dec. 26.

Further scans showed a "bone stress part" to his injury, team physiotherapist Alex Kountouris said, and its added difficulty was likely to see him sideline until early to mid-January.

"By the end of last week it was apparent to all of us organization him that he was progressing slower than expected for a soft tissue injury of the heel," Kountouris said in a statement released by Cricket Australia on Wednesday.

"As such we agreed for him to see a foot specialist and had further scans that have identified a bone component to his injury that was not evident on the original scans.

"This means that his revival will take longer than first expected. He is not likely to resume bowling until early to mid-January 2012."

The predictable recovery time will probable see Cummins miss the first and second test, which begins on Jan. 3 in Sydney? The third test in Perth starts on Jan. 13.

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