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India's outgoing coach Greg Chappell has slammed the country's unprofessional set-up, saying "if you want to be like Australia, you can't run your cricket like Zimbabwe."
The former Australian captain, who quit after India's first round exit in the World Cup, said long-term planning was needed to take India to the next level.
"The Indians must adopt a 10-year plan, spelling out the aims and objectives and go about attaining those goals in a professional manner," Chappell, 58, told the Times of India. "Any half-measures or cosmetic changes at this stage would be like putting band-aid on cancer. If you want to be like Australia, you can't run your cricket like Zimbabwe."
Chappell rued the team's first-round ouster in the World Cup after India were stunned by Bangladesh and also lost to Sri Lanka in the preliminary stage.
"I think we should have done much better in the West Indies with the squad we had," he said. "We batted poorly against Bangladesh, but we should have still squeezed out a win. We could have done with a few young legs, but I believe that we still had the ammunition to at least reach the semis."
Chappell said he had enjoyed the challenge of coaching India despite a controversial two-year term in which he reportedly annoyed senior players by his insistence on blooding young cricketers.
