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Full name David John Capel
Born February 6, 1963, Northampton
Current age 45 years 100 days
Major teams England,Eastern Province,Northamptonshire
Nickname Capes
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm medium-fast
Other Coach
Height
6 ft 0 in
Education Roade Comprehensive
Batting and fielding averages
Mat
Inns
NO
Runs
HS
Ave
BF
SR
100
50
4s
6s
Ct
St
Tests
15
25
1
374
98
15.58
1231
30.38
0
2
34
1
6
0
ODIs
23
19
2
327
50*
19.23
479
68.26
0
1
4
6
0
First-class
313
477
66
12202
175
29.68
16
72
156
0
List A
345
308
52
7011
121
27.38
4
28
84
0
Bowling averages
Mat
Inns
Balls
Runs
Wkts
BBI
BBM
Ave
Econ
SR
4w
5w
10
Tests
15
23
2000
1064
21
3/88
4/154
50.66
3.19
95.2
0
0
0
ODIs
23
22
1038
805
17
3/38
3/38
47.35
4.65
61.0
0
0
0
First-class
313
33070
17573
546
7/44
32.18
3.18
60.5
14
0
List A
345
12315
9139
281
5/51
5/51
32.52
4.45
43.8
8
1
0
Career statistics
Test debut
England v Pakistan at Leeds, Jul 2-6, 1987 scorecard
Last Test
West Indies v England at St John's, Apr 12-16, 1990 scorecard
West Indies v England at Bridgetown, Apr 3, 1990 scorecard
ODI statistics
First-class span
1981 - 1998
List A span
1982 - 2003
Profile
David Capel was England's nearly man who had the definitive impossible job when he came into an England side looking for the new Ian Botham in the mid-1980s, and after swimming confidently for a time, he soon sank. Quite simply, Capel was not good enough to justify his place with bat or ball, and averages of 15 and 50 from 15 Tests tell the story. He made a 98, at Karachi in 1987-88, but he also had 13 scores of 6 or less in 25 innings. His energetic medium-pace was pretty innocuous, but he did have a distinguished rabbit: Viv Richards, who he dismissed three times. And he did play his part in one of England's most unlikely successes, as the most sedate of Graham Gooch's four-man seam attack in Jamaica in 1989-90. He subsequently ran the academy at Northamptonshire and, at the end of the 2006 season, was appointed head coach of the county.
Cricinfo staff September 2006
