Chappell, currently in India with the Australia A squad for their two four-day matches against India A in Bengaluru, says his job is not as hands-on as that of a coach.

He is working with coaches rather than players, and as a representative of a different era, he finds himself having to slow everything and everyone down a bit in this fast-paced, digital era of coaching.

Chappell also reflected on the diminishing aura of Australia as a world force, saying it was a cyclical phenomenon, and that Australia would soon be a real threat again. “(It) is understandable because other countries have grown up in that time. Where they were once perhaps awed or daunted by an Australian team, they see them more often,” said Chappell. “They play with them, against them, in IPL and so they realise they are human and they aren’t perhaps quite as in awe of them.

“We haven’t had the ongoing success. We have had periods in recent times where we have had lean spells. So other teams start to build in confidence. I think that cross-pollination of coaches, cross-pollination of players playing with and against each other in the IPL has helped to break down a lot of those things.”

Chappell, who was India coach from 2015 to 2017, also heaped praise on their current captain, Virat Kohli, who has conquered English conditions and is atop the Test rankings. “Kohli, as well as having great physical talent has the mental capacity and the emotional capacity to deal with what it takes to be successful in that really harsh environment,” he said.

“I don’t know that there are many with more will to succeed than Virat. He has a real desire. Something’s driving him that is beyond what most people are capable of. I think we still haven’t seen the best of him.”