Alok Kapali

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Alok Kapali
Personal information
Full name Alok Kapali
Born 1 January 1984 (1984-01-01) (age 24)
Sylhet, Chittagong, Bangladesh
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Leg break
International information
National side Bangladesh
Test debut (cap 26) 28 July 2002: v Sri Lanka
Last Test 28 February 2006: v Sri Lanka
ODI debut (cap 56) 4 August 2002: v Sri Lanka
Last ODI 6 September 2008:v Australia
Domestic team information
Years Team
2000–present Sylhet Division
Career statistics
Test ODI FC List A
Matches 17 65 78 122
Runs scored 584 1,170 3,653 2,686
Batting average 17.69 19.83 27.26 25.82
100s/50s 0/2 1/5 8/12 4/11
Top score 85 115 173 115
Balls bowled 1,103 1,368 8,211 3,046
Wickets 6 24 128 68
Bowling average 118.16 49.75 29.98 35.44
5 wickets in innings 0 0 5 0
10 wickets in match 0 n/a 1 n/a
Best bowling 3/3 3/49 7/33 4/23
Catches/stumpings 5/– 25/– 51/– 55/–

Source: CricketArchive, 17 September 2008

Alok Kapali (Bengali: অলক কাপালী ) (born January 1, 1984 in Sylhet) is a Bangladeshi cricketer. He is an allrounder who bats in the middle to lower order and bowls leg spin with a run-up (walk up) similar to that of Shane Warne. He is the only Bangladeshi cricket player to take a Test hat-trick.

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International career

Test career

Kapali made his Test debut in 2002, against Sri Lanka at Colombo. He took 2 wickets, Michael Vandort and Upul Chandana as well as making 39 and 23 with the bat. In his next 16 Tests he took just 4 more wickets and this included a hat-trick against Pakistan in 2003. This was spread over two overs, and when he trapped Umar Gul LBW with the first ball of his 3rd over Kapali became the first Bangladeshi bowler to achieve the milestone in Test cricket, and the youngest of all time, at the age of 19 years 240 days. He finished with figures of 3/3. His effort in quickly cleaning up the tail also allowed gave Bangladesh their maiden first innings lead in Tests.

With the bat Kapali has struggled thus far in Test cricket and made his highest score of 85 against the West Indies at Chittagong.

One Day Internationals

In One Day International cricket he has been in and out of the side, impressing more with the bat than the ball. He hit the fastest century by a Bangladeshi batsmen (86 deliveries) in a match against India during the 2008 Asia cup.[1] He also holds the Bangladeshi record 7th wicket partnership of 89 with Khaled Mashud, made against Kenya in 2006.[1]

Domestic career

Kapali scored 3 hundreds for Sylhet in the Bangladeshi National Cricket League of 2006-07, finishing with 744 runs.

His highest first class score is 156 against Chittagong.


ICL career

In 2008, Kapali retired from international cricket and played for the Dhaka Warriors in the Indian Cricket League. He scored the first century in the two seasons of ICL, 100 in 60 balls, against Hyderabad Heroes. He finished as the second highest scorer of the league stage with 324 runs in 8 matches at an average of 54.

References

  1. ^ "2008 Asia Cup - Bangladesh v India, Karachi, June 28, 2008". Cricinfo. Retrieved on 2008-06-29.

External links

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Bangladesh squad – 2003 Cricket World Cup
1 Khaled Mashud (w) • 2 Al Sahariar • 3 Alok Kapali • 4 Akram Khan • 5 Habibul Bashar • 6 Hannan Sarkar • 7 Ehsanul Haque • 8 Sanwar Hossain • 9 Khaled Mahmud • 10 Manjural Islam • 11 Mashrafe Mortaza • 12 Mohammad Ashraful • 13 Mohammad Rafique • 14 Talha Jubair • 15 Tapash Baisya • 16 Tushar Imran • Coach: Mohsin Kamal & Ali Zia
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