Alok Kapali
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| Alok Kapali | ||||
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| Batting style | Right-hand bat | |||
| Bowling style | Legbreak | |||
| Career statistics | ||||
| Tests | ODIs | |||
| Matches | 17 | 55 | ||
| Runs scored | 584 | 964 | ||
| Batting average | 17.69 | 19.67 | ||
| 100s/50s | -/2 | -/5 | ||
| Top score | 85 | 89* | ||
| Balls bowled | 1103 | 1124 | ||
| Wickets | 6 | 15 | ||
| Bowling average | 118.16 | 62.60 | ||
| 5 wickets in innings | - | - | ||
| 10 wickets in match | - | n/a | ||
| Best bowling | 3/3 | 2/29 | ||
| Catches/stumpings | 5/- | 21/- | ||
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.
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. It was against Chittagong that he made his highest first class score, 156 for Sylhet. Despite Bangladesh's sizeable Hindu population, Kapali is one of very few Hindus to play in the national team, possibly linked to opression of the Muslim majority on minority religions in Bangladesh.
In One Day International cricket he has been in and out of the side, impressing more with the bat than the ball. He holds the Bangladeshi record 7th wicket partnership of 89 with Khaled Mashud, made against Kenya in 2006.[2]
Kapali scored 3 hundreds for Sylhet in the Bangladeshi National Cricket League of 2006-07, finishing with 744 runs.
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