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Graham Napier

England

Player profile

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
First-class	80	110	21	2793	125	31.38			3	17			34
List A	152	116	17	1680	79	16.96			0	8			36
Twenty20	38	25	3	512	152*	23.27	307	166.77	1	0	42	36	6

Bowling averages
	Mat	Inns	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR	4w	5w
First-class	80		9529	6156	149	5/56		41.31	3.87	63.9		2
List A	152		4430	3769	151	6/29	6/29	24.96	5.10	29.3	6	1
Twenty20	38	38	788	942	44	4/10	4/10	21.40	7.17	17.9	1	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