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Kapil the batsman

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nevada Grand Master

nevada

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On 4/15/2020 at 3:20 PM, The Dark Horse said:

Was going through a discussion on Twitter. Kapil was an absolute freak.

ODI Strike rate - 95

ODI strike rate in world cups - 115

Test strike rate - 82.xx

 

He was THE definition of a dasher. Pity I wasn’t born to see his batting live.. If not for captaincy may be he could have done even better(?)

When he was on, he made batting look easy. There's the 175 n.o. in the 1983 world cup which is the stuff of legends. His 4 6s to save follow on is widely mentioned but he played some dashing innings in England even in the early 80s against a strong English attack. You can find this on YouTube.  One obscure match where he made specialist batsmen look pedestrian was an ODI against the WI in the late eighties. India were chasing and wickets fell in a heap. Kapil came in and batted very fluently, like there was no problem with the wicket or the bowling whatsoever. He made some 70 odd and had a decent partnership going with Kiran More. India lost the match, but Kapil's innings relieved the pain of losing a little bit and briefly gave hope as well.  Edit: It was this match, he actually scored 87. Look at his strike rate of 134 which is healthy even for a T20 game and runs scored vs all other batsmen, including the opposition.     https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/16728/scorecard/64313/india-vs-west-indies-1st-odi-west-indies-tour-of-india-1987-88

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Real McCoy Experienced

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I didn't watch Kapil live except for some test matches towards the end of his career. From what I've heard about him from elders, he was a very capable batsman who could play attacking as well as defensive innings. That on top of his bowling and fielding made him a vital cog in the 80s team. Much like when people switched off their TVs after Sachin got out in the 90s, my elders tuned in when Kapil (and Srikanth later on) came to bat in the 80s tuning out the boreathon from Sunnyji and bewda

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coffee_rules Grand Master

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14 hours ago, The Dark Horse said:

 

Kapil is the only one from the bygone era. Amazing, what underrated ODI player he was. He was our Sachin from 83-90 saving our asses in cluctch matches, 83 WC win and 87 WC semis is all because of him. Gun player . Entitled to be miffed at comparisons to tukkali players like Pandya

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zen Grand Master

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1 hour ago, sarcastic said:

@zen your comments please.

On “potential”, Kapil was a very good batsman in ODIs especially in the 80s. In terms of output, Afridiesque (Afridi has a similar avg and a class leading SR of 113 esp. for his time).
 

Very inconsistent with the bat - for e.g. went without scoring a 50 in the last 6-7 years of his ODI career. Could deliver in “nothing to lose” situations (175 not out) but not usually in KO pressure games (failed to take Ind home in 87 SF and was removed from captaincy). 


PS among those on the list - Buttler, Roy and Bairstow, not only have high SR but also good averages.

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zen Grand Master

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1 hour ago, Jimmy Cliff said:

Kapil delivering a phaintaa to Hadlee in the 1985 World Championship Semi Final. Scored 54* off 37 in a match-winning effort :thumb:. 

That was a nice knock in non-WC games, unfortunately that is his only 50+ score in any tournament SF or F :((

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Jimmy Cliff Newbie

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16 minutes ago, zen said:

That was a nice knock in non-WC games, unfortunately that is his only 50+ score in any tournament SF or F :((

The World Championship of Cricket in 1985 was kind of like the Champions Trophy of that time. Kapil scoring a match-winning fifty as a bowling all-rounder in a Knockout game of that tournament is a pretty big deal given that some of the specialist Indian batsmen of that era never went past 30 in the KO games of major tournaments (WCs and WCC) :((.

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zen Grand Master

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Talking about Afridi and Kapil, they both also have similar averages in KO games 

 

Afridi 

 

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  Span Mat Inns NO Runs HS Ave BF SR 100 50 0 4s 6s  
unfiltered 1996-2015 398 369 27 8064 124 23.57 6892 117.00 6 39 30 730 351 Profile
filtered 1996-2015 39 37 2 688 65 19.65 667 103.14 0 3 3 67 22

 

Kapil 

 

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  Span Mat Inns NO Runs HS Ave BF SR 100 50 0 4s 6s  
unfiltered 1978-1994 225 198 39 3783 175* 23.79 3979 95.07 1 14 13 291+ 67+ Profile
filtered 1983-1994 21 18 5 254 54* 19.53 274 92.70 0 1 2 25 2

 

Kapil has more "0" than "50 or more" scores :((

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