Australian cricket team in Australia in 1974–75 of out-and-out gamesmanship that made old pros like me wince. It was an open secret that he used to encourage his players to give a lot of verbal abuse to rival batsman when they were at the wicket in an attempt to break their concentration. Ian Chappell came from a South Australian cricket dynasty, his maternal grandfather Vic Richardson had been captain of Australia and his younger brothers Greg and Trevor Chappell also played for Australia. In the 1960s the young Ian Chappell had been noted as an aggressive batsman and gifted slip fielder who played for South Australia when
Ian Chappell Australia's Channel Nine and in the United States by MLB Network. He worked with Matt Vasgersian and former Cy Young Award winner John Smoltz. Chappell's first book was an account of the 1972 Ashes tour, "Tigers Among the Lions", followed by a series of books of cricketing humour and anecdotes published in the early 1980s. The more analytical "The Cutting Edge", an appraisal of modern cricket, appeared in 1992. Ashley Mallett's biography, "Chappelli Speaks Out" (published in the UK as "Hitting Out – the Ian Chappell Story") was written in collaboration with Chappell and released in 2005. It caused controversy