Cassette recording, 'Greg Chappell: Batting' produced by Admark Party Limited. The recording consists of a speech by G S Chappell discussing his life in cricket and providing advice on batting. The cassette sleeve contains instructions on stance, grip, forward defence, backward defence, cover drive, back foot drive, sweep shot, and square cut strokes.
Side 1, 'Greg Chappell: My Life in Cricket' is 22 minutes 50 seconds long. Chappell talks about his early memories of playing cricket and being encouraged to play cricket by his parents alongside his brother Ian, playing cricket at school and at Prince Alfred College in Adelaide, being selected to play for South Australia, joining Somerset in 1968, being selected to play for Australia in 1970, playing with Barry Richards for South Australia, making his Test debut and scoring a century against England at Perth in 1970-1971, being selected for the Australian tour of England in 1972 having made centuries against the World XI for Australia in 1971-1972, G S Sobers' innings of 254 for World XI against Australia at Melbourne in 1971-1972 which Chappell regarded as one of the greatest innings he had seen, the success of the Australian tour of England in 1972 and Chappell's century at Lord's during the tour, touring the West Indies with Australia in 1972-1973 and winning the series against West Indies, leaving South Australia to become captain of Queensland, playing a dual series against New Zealand in 1973-1974, defeating England in the 1974-1975 Ashes series, Australia's tour of Canada in 1975, playing in the first Men's Cricket World Cup Final in 1975, Australia's tour of England in 1975, and the West Indies' tour of Australia in 1975-1976 which was Chappell's first series as captain.
Side 2, 'Greg Chappell: Batting' is 22 minutes 22 seconds long. Chappell talks about aspects of batting such as equipment, clothing and footwear, stance, grip, and cricket shots including forward defence, backward defence, cover drive, back foot drive, sweep shot and square cut. Chappell refers to the diagrams in the cassette sleeve throughout.
