Former Team India coach Greg Chappell has been contracted by Cricket Australia to work as consultant coach at its Centre of Excellence in Brisbane.

According to Sydney Morning Herald, Chappell, along with his Team India predecessor John Wright and former Australian pacer Bruce Reid, has been roped in to work part-time at the academy.

Incidentally, Reid too had a stint with the Indian cricket team as its bowling coach during the side's Down Under tour in 2003.

Wright was in fact CA's first choice to fill the void created after Tim Nielsen left the head coach's job to succeed John Buchanan with the Australian team.

But Wright, who had a successful 2000-2005 stint with the Indian side, was not ready to relocate his family and withdrew from the race.