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Full name Graham Richard Napier
Born January 6, 1980, Colchester, Essex
Current age 28 years 201 days
Major teams Essex,Essex Cricket Board,Wellington
Nickname Plank
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm medium
Height
5 ft 10 in
Education Gilberd School, Colchester
Batting and fielding averages
Mat
Inns
NO
Runs
HS
Ave
BF
SR
100
50
4s
6s
Ct
St
First-class
80
110
21
2793
125
31.38
3
17
34
0
List A
152
116
17
1680
79
16.96
0
8
36
0
Twenty20
38
25
3
512
152*
23.27
307
166.77
1
0
42
36
6
0
Bowling averages
Mat
Inns
Balls
Runs
Wkts
BBI
BBM
Ave
Econ
SR
4w
5w
10
First-class
80
9529
6156
149
5/56
41.31
3.87
63.9
2
0
List A
152
4430
3769
151
6/29
6/29
24.96
5.10
29.3
6
1
0
Twenty20
38
38
788
942
44
4/10
4/10
21.40
7.17
17.9
1
0
0
Career statistics
First-class debut
1997
Last First-class
Essex v Gloucestershire at Chelmsford, Jul 22-25, 2008 scorecard
List A debut
1997
Last List A
Leicestershire v Essex at Leicester, Jul 20, 2008 scorecard
Twenty20 debut
Surrey v Essex at East Molesey, Jun 14, 2003 scorecard
Last Twenty20
Essex v Northamptonshire at Chelmsford, Jul 7, 2008 scorecard
Profile
Graham Napier's appeared to be making a steady rise prominence when in July 2004, when he was named in a pool of 30 players for the Champions Trophy. As a product of the Essex youth system, Napier made his mark in county cricket as an allrounder of great promise, particularly in the one-day game, where his hard-hitting batting was complemented by a nifty line in seam bowling, which can prove frustratingly hard to dispatch in the closing overs of a match. In 2003, he equalled the highest number of wickets taken by an Essex player in a one-day league campaign (33), and was subsequently selected for the ECB academy tour of Malaysia and India in early 2004. In recent seasons he has been troubled by injuries and slipped well down the Essex pecking order, to the point where he wasn't even sure of his place in the team. A few difficult seasons following, but in 2008 he wrote his name in the record books with an astonishing 152 against Sussex in the Twenty20, which included a world record 16 sixes. Andrew Miller June 2008
