Former Indian cricket team coach Greg Chappell has hit back at Sachin Tendulkar, vehemently denying the master blaster's claims that Chappell tried to remove Rahul Dravid from captaincy just before the 2007 World Cup championship. While Rahul Dravid has distanced himself from the entire stand-off, other Indian team members including former Indian captain Saurav Ganguly have come out in support of the master blaster saying Chappell did vitiate the entire atmosphere within the team which resulted in the team crashing out of the World Cup rather unceremoniously.