Melbourne, Nov 3 : Australian selector Greg Chappell has denied that the outgoing selection panel had failed to communicate properly with players who get dumped from the team.

Snubbed Simon Katich, Chris Rogers and Brad Hodge had earlier claimed that the panel chaired by Andrew Hilditch had not provided adequate feedback.

“In my time on the selection panel I think our communication was very good … we all like to receive good news; not many of us like to receive bad news, and therefore, we tend to filter the information we are given, and then, on reflection, you feel as though you haven''t been given that information,” Chappell told the Age.

“We’ve all been guilty of that at different times and part of the responsibility as a selector, and particularly the chairman, is to deliver bad news. Sometimes players don’t want to hear it.”

“The modern world is all about communication and we’ve got structures in place at CA that are pretty good. I know from personal experience that there are times when players have been communicated with, but because they didn’t particularly enjoy the information they were given, they pretended that they hadn’t heard about it,” he added.

Chappell will sign off as a selector along with Hilditch and Jamie Cox after the Test series in South Africa. (ANI)