Greg Chappell walk, while his maternal grandfather was the famous all-round sportsman Vic Richardson, who had captained Australia in Test cricket. Elder brother Ian and younger brother Trevor also played for Australia, and Greg closely followed in Ian's footsteps to the top. Given weekly lessons by coach Lynn Fuller, the brothers fought out fierce backyard cricket matches, with no holds barred. The fraternal relationship between Ian and Greg became legendary in Australian cricketing history for volatile verbal slanging matches, even during hard fought Test matches, which had their genesis in the family backyard. Chappell attended St Leonards primary school, where he played
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