Moral of the story - Believe in yourself and don't take overseas coaches too seriously," Prasad tweeted. Deepak Chahar Was rejected by Greg Chappell at RCA for his height and told to look at a different occupation. In fact, former India opening batsman and a long-standing servant of Rajasthan cricket, Aakash Chopra had mentioned the same during an episode on 'Aakash Vani' on Facebook. When he was younger, he used to practice in Rajasthan in Hanumangarh, he met Gregg Chappell – the director of the Rajasthan Cricket Academy at that time, who told him to leave cricket. Chappell told him to leave cricket not because he wouldn't get selected into the academy but he told him that he would never become a cricketer himself," he had said.

Source: Hindustan Times July 22, 2021 01:45 UTC