John Geoffrey Wright (born July 5, 1954 in Canterbury) was a former New Zealand skipper who went on to have a reasonably successful tenure as the coach of the Indian cricket team. Wright and Sourav Ganguly enjoyed good success for most part of their tenure but things fell apart towards the end with Ganguly losing form and the other team members also putting up mediocre performances. Wright made his international debut against England in 1978 and retired in 1993. He was decent success in both forms of the game with over 5,000 Test runs averaging 37.82 with the help of 12 Test centuries. 10 of Wright`s 12 tons were registered in New Zealand. In ODIs he scored close to 4,000 runs and accumulated 25,000 runs in his first-class career. Wright mostly opened for the Kiwis and was a dogged batsman more in the Dravid mould. This former India coach was known for his unorthodox batting stance; he used to stand with his bat parallel to the ground. In addition to being the Indian coach, Wright also served as the coach of the World XI team that took on Australia in the much-hyped ICC Super Series 2005. The tournament turned out to be a disaster as the World Team lost both the Test and the ODIs.