Chappell points a finger

Sensational television footage today captured Greg Chappell, India's coach, making an obscene finger gesture to a crowd of protestors while boarding the team bus in Kolkata. It is not clear what the exact nature of the provocation was.

Preceding the one-dayer at Kolkata, where India were obliterated by South Africa, there had been considerable public demonstrations against the exclusion of former captain and local favourite Sourav Ganguly from the team. On Thursday Ganguly was included in the Test squad to play Sri Lanka at Chennai, starting on December 2, though reports from today's match indicate that it wasn't enough to placate a boisterous Eden Gardens crowd.

Neither Chappell nor the BCCI has yet commented on the incident. However, a number of television channels replayed the incident through the evening.