Trevor Chappell few days later [Austin] Robinson, Dennis' manager, rang and said, "Do you want to join World Series Cricket" and I said, "Yeah, where do I sign?"" In 1977–78 Chappell played ten games for WSC Australia in the Country Cup, scoring 339 runs, more than any other Australian batsman, although his average was only 26. A highlight was a 110 he scored against the West Indies in Albury. He also scored 56 off 300 minutes against a World XI in a Lismore game which resulted in him being booed by the crowd for slow scoring. "Trevor Chappell batted exceptionally well and
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