Cricket: Wright gets top in India

Former New Zealand captain John Wright will take over as the first-ever foreign coach of the Indian cricket team, it was announced in Bombay late last night.

The Board of Control for Cricket in India settled for Wright ahead of former Australian test stars Greg Chappell and Geoff Marsh.

"Wright was the right man for the job because Marsh could not meet our conditions, while Chappell demanded an astronomical figure," said former BCCI president Raj Singh Dunarpur, who was on the four-man selection panel.

Wright is expected to take over for an initial one-year term just before the first of two tests against Zimbabwe to be played in New Delhi from November 19.