greg chappell Profile - ICC Profile, Age, Career Info & Stats.
greg chappell is a cricketer(sportsman) from Australia. His ICC profile, age, career info & stats are given below.
Full Name
Gregory Stephen Chappell
Born
August 07, 1948, Unley, Adelaide, South Australia
Age
75 years old
Batting Style
Right hand Bat
Bowling Style
Right arm Medium
Playing Role
Top order Batter
Height
1.87 m
Education
Prince Alfred College, Adelaide
Batting Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | 87 | 74 | - | - |
Inn | 151 | 72 | - | - |
Runs | 7110 | 2331 | - | - |
Avg | 53.86 | 40.19 | - | - |
SR | 54.36 | 75.71 | - | - |
HS | 247 | 138 | - | - |
NO | 19 | 14 | - | - |
100s | 24 | 3 | - | - |
50s | 31 | 14 | - | - |
4s | 755 | 195 | - | - |
6s | 16 | 7 | - | - |
Bowling Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | 87 | 74 | - | - |
Inn | 88 | 67 | - | - |
Balls | 4717 | 3074 | - | - |
Runs | 1913 | 2097 | - | - |
Wkt | 47 | 72 | - | - |
BBI | 61 / 5 | 15 / 5 | - | - |
BBM | 61 / 5 | 15 / 5 | - | - |
Eco | 2.43 | 4.09 | - | - |
Avg | 40.7 | 29.12 | - | - |
5W | 1 | 2 | - | - |
10W | 0 | 0 | - | - |
Teams he has played for:
- VY Richardson
- TM Chappell
- IM Chappell
- Australia
- Queensland
- Somerset
- South Australia
Heres what CricBuzz says about him.
Much before this coaching saga, in the 1970s, Greg Chappell was the best Australian batsman of that time. He had a penchant for big scores and he did it all with effortless ease. Greg was one of those gifted talents who also had the will power to translate the potential into a success story. As a player, he scaled major heights and was also a fairly successful captain during his times. Being in an era that had the fearsome West Indian bowlers didn't deter Greg who was only pumped up to face the Caribbean pacers. A few of his best knocks unfortunately came in Kerry Packer's World Series Cricket where he completely owned the WI pacers. He loved batting against the number one side in the world and had tremendous success against them in his Test career as well. Born in a family that lived and breathed cricket, Greg's elder brother Ian and younger one Trevor were also Australian cricketers.
Ian was the first to represent Australia and did so for a considerable amount of time before Greg followed suit. Trevor didn't play as much as his older brothers. Greg burst into the international scene in the Ashes cauldron and made a statement immediately with a century on debut in a pressure situation. There was no looking back from there on and he even signed off in style with a century in his farewell Test. That made him the first man to notch a ton in his first and last Tests. Like his brother Ian, Greg too was captaincy material and he relished the opportunity when it came, by cracking twin tons in his first game as captain. The ODI format wasn't as successful for Greg when you compare it to his exploits in the longest form of the game. Also, he never got to lead the team in a World Cup.
Despite a seesaw form swing in 1983-84, Greg managed to arrest the slide and timed his retirement perfectly, smashing a classy 182 in his final Test innings. After retirement, he jumped into the media bandwagon and later on, got involved with Australian cricket at grassroots level as well. His mentoring skills were always lauded and even acted as a consultant successfully. It were these that impressed Ganguly during India's 2003-04 visit to Australia and consequently, led to the Greg's appointment as India coach. However, things soured and never went well. After the fiasco with India, Chappell got back to Australia and has been working with the Cricket Academy over the years. Greg's most infamous activity will be the underarm incident where he ordered his brother Trevor to bowl underarm in a game against New Zealand.
By Hariprasad Sadanandan
Heres what ESPNcricinfo says about him.
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.