Australian cricket legend Greg Chappell has revealed his beloved baggy green has gone missing. Speaking on the Cricket Et Al podcast , the 76-year-old said the prized possession had mysteriously disappeared from storage, but didn’t go as far as saying it had been stolen. Chappell said he put his baggy green in storage ten years ago but realised it wasn’t there when he cleared it out to move to Adelaide.
“We had stuff in storage for about 10 years or so, and when we moved back to Adelaide we brought everything out of storage and I was expecting to find that baggy green cap, but it didn’t appear,” Chappell told journalists Peter Lalor and Gideon Haigh on Cricket Et Al . “I don’t know what happened to it. I wouldn’t like to cast aspersions, but it went into storage, but it doesn’t seem to have come out.
“I don’t surround myself with my cricket memorabilia ...
(but) I’m a little bit disappointed.” Watch Australia v England ODI’s Live & exclusive on FOX SPORTS, available on Kayo. New to Kayo? Start your free trial today > Chappell received more than one baggy green during his career.
News Corp reports the baggy green he gifted to England’s Geoffrey Boycott sold at auction four years ago for $15,000. But the baggy green he did hold on to is now missing. Chappell is considered one of Australia’s greatest ever batsmen — scoring 24 centuries across 87 Test matches during the 1970s and 80s.
The Chappell brothers — Greg, Ian and Trevor — all played .
