Graham Napier

Infobox cricketer biography
playername = Graham Napier


country = England
fullname = Graham Richard Napier
nickname = Plank
living = true
dayofbirth = 6
monthofbirth = 1
yearofbirth = 1980
placeofbirth = Colchester, Essex
countryofbirth = England
heightft = 5
heightinch = 10
batting = Right-hand batsman
bowling = Right-hand fast-medium
role = All-rounder
club1 = Essex
year1 = 1997–present
clubnumber1 = 17
club2 = Wellington
year2 = 2007/08
clubnumber2 =
club3 = MCC
year3 = 2004
clubnumber3 =
type1 = First-class
debutdate1 = 7 May
debutyear1 = 1997
debutfor1 = Essex
debutagainst1 = Cambridge University
lastdate1 = 19 September
lastyear1 = 2007
lastfor1 = Essex
lastagainst1 = Middlesex
type2 = List A
onetype2 =
debutdate2 = 10 August
debutyear2 = 1997
debutfor2 = Essex
debutagainst2 = Kent
lastdate2 = 4 June
lastyear2 = 2008
lastfor2 = Essex
lastagainst2 = Leicestershire
deliveries = balls
columns = 4
column1 = FC
matches1 = 78
runs1 = 2746
bat avg1 = 31.56
100s/50s1 = 3/17
top score1 = 125
deliveries1 = 9199
wickets1 = 142
bowl avg1 = 42.16
fivefor1 = 2
tenfor1 = 0
best bowling1 = 5-56
catches/stumpings1 = 34/–
column2 = List A
matches2 = 149
runs2 = 1573
bat avg2 = 16.38
100s/50s2 = 0/7
top score2 = 79
deliveries2 = 4334
wickets2 = 149
bowl avg2 = 24.73
fivefor2 = 1
tenfor2 = n/a
best bowling2 = 6-29
catches/stumpings2 = 35/–
column3 = T20
matches3 = 35
runs3 = 437
bat avg3 = 23.00
100s/50s3 = 1/0
top score3 = 152*
deliveries3 = 722
wickets3 = 37
bowl avg3 = 23.86
fivefor3 = 0
tenfor3 = n/a
best bowling3 = 3-13
catches/stumpings3 = 6/–
column4 = U19 T
matches4 = 4
runs4 = 138
bat avg4 = 23.00
100s/50s4 = 0/0
top score4 = 40
deliveries4 = 192
wickets4 = 2
bowl avg4 = 69.50
fivefor4 = 0
tenfor4 = 0
best bowling4 = 1-10
catches/stumpings4 = 1/–
date = 25 August
year = 2008
source = http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/7/7201/7201.html cricketarchive

Graham Richard Napier (born January 6, 1980 in Colchester, Essex) is an English cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and a right-arm fast-medium bowler. [ [http://www.essexcricket.org.uk/profiles-napier.html Essex County Cricket Club player profile] . Retrieved on 2006-06-25.] Napier has played first-class cricket for his home county of Essex since the outset of his senior career in 1997. Between 1997 and 1999 Napier played in four Youth Test matches in England against Zimbabwe, South Africa (twice) and Australia's respective under-19 teams. He was also a member of the 1998 U-19 Cricket World Cup -winning squad.

Twenty 20

Napier participated in the 2003, 2004 and 2006 Twenty20 Cups, in which he aided his Essex team to the 2004 Quarter Finals.

In a Twenty20 cup match against Sussex on 24 June 2008, Napier scored 152 not out from 58 balls. The innings set a number of records, notably the highest individual score in a T20 innings in England, and in the domestic Twenty20 competition; the highest number of sixes in an individual Twenty20 innings (16); the most runs scored in boundaries in an individual Twenty20 innings (136 runs, scored as 10 fours, and 16 sixes). [cite web
title = BBC Sport: Awesome Napier shatters records
url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/counties/7471312.stm
accessdate = 2008-06-24 ] It also broke the record for most sixes in a domestic one-day innings, and tied the record for most sixes in any domestic innings, tying the record set by Andrew Symonds, during a County Championship game in 1995.

Napier uses a Warsop Platinum bat, supplied by Warsop Stebbing bats of East Hanningfield, Essex [ [http://www.handmadebats.co.uk/prodbats.htm WS Warsop Stebbing - Bats, Balls and Bits ] ]

References

External links

* [http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/7/7201/7201.html Graham Napier] at Cricket Archive
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* [http://www.grahamnapier.com/ Graham Napier's Official Website]