Greg Chappell

Australia|Top order Batter
Greg Chappell
INTL CAREER: 1970 - 1984
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Full Name

Gregory Stephen Chappell

Born

August 07, 1948, Unley, Adelaide, South Australia

Age

75y 225d

Batting Style

Right hand Bat

Bowling Style

Right arm Medium

Playing Role

Top order Batter

Height

1.87 m

Education

Prince Alfred College, Adelaide

RELATIONS

(grandfather),

(brother),

(brother)

Other

Coach, Commentator

Upright and unbending, with a touch of the tin soldier about his bearing, Greg Chappell was the outstanding Australian batter of his generation. Though he had an appetite for big scores, it was his calm brow and courtly manner that bowlers found just as disheartening. He made a century in his first and final Tests, and 22 more in between - although perhaps his single most outstanding batting performance, 620 runs at 69 in five unauthorised World Series Cricket Super Tests in the Caribbean in 1978-79, off a West Indian attack of unprecedented hostility, left no trace on the record books.

Less empathetic as a captain than his elder brother Ian, he nonetheless won 21 of his 48 Tests and lost only 13. He lost the Ashes in 1977, but reclaimed them in 1982-83. The home summer before that, he made hundreds in three consecutive Tests, against New Zealand and England. He was the first batter to score centuries in each innings of his captaincy debut. In his final Test, he broke Don Bradman's Australian record for most runs in a career.

Chappell was a masterful one-day batter as well, but he is most remembered in the format for being the captain who asked a bowler, his younger brother Trevor, to bowl underarm when New Zealand's tailenders needed six off the last ball to tie a game in Melbourne.

After retiring he went into coaching, spending some time with South Australia and working as a consultant at Pakistan's National Cricket Academy. He had several stints as an Australian selector, from the '80s to the 2010s, and also as a national talent manager. In May 2005 he was appointed coach of the Indian team - a stint that included a stormy public falling out with the captain, Sourav Ganguly, and ended after India's early exit from the 2007 World Cup.

Greg Chappell Career Stats

Batting & Fielding

FormatMatInnsNORunsHSAveBFSR100s50s4s6sCtSt
Tests87151197110247*53.86--2431755161220
ODIs7472142331138*40.18307975.703141957230
FC3215427224535247*52.20--74111--3760
List A130126193948138*36.89--427--541

Bowling

FormatMatInnsBallsRunsWktsBBIBBMAveEconSR4w5w10w
Tests878853271913475/615/6140.702.15113.3010
ODIs746731082097725/155/1529.124.0443.1020
FC321-2092687172917/40-29.952.4971.9-50
List A130-526133721305/155/1525.933.8440.4120
Gregory Stephen Chappell

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Debut/Last Matches of Greg Chappell

Recent Matches of Greg Chappell

MatchBatBowlDateGroundFormat
vs England XI30/1125-Oct-1994Perth (Lilac Hill)OTHEROD
Queensland vs West Aust85 & 10/1509-Mar-1984PerthFC
Queensland vs Tasmania2 & 129--24-Feb-1984HobartFC
Queensland vs Victoria420/617-Feb-1984MelbourneFC
Queensland vs West Aust170/24 & 0/3127-Jan-1984BrisbaneFC

Photos of Greg Chappell

Greg Chappell talks to coach Justin Langer and captain Tim Paine
Steven Smith and Darren Lehmann listen to Greg Chappell
Interim Australia selector Greg Chappell at the Gabba
Greg Chappell watches over Australia U-19s
Greg Chappell watches over Australia U-19s
Graeme Hick and Greg Chappell address the media ahead of the U-19 series