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| Full name | Ian Michael Chappell | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 26 September 1943 Unley, South Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nickname | Chappelli | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Right-arm leg spin | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Top-order batter | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Relations | Greg Chappell (brother) Trevor Chappell (brother) Vic Richardson (grandfather) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Test debut (cap 231) | 4 December 1964 v Pakistan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last Test | 6 February 1980 v England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ODI debut (cap 2) | 5 January 1971 v England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last ODI | 14 January 1980 v England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1961/62–1979/80 | South Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1963 | Lancashire | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Ian Michael Chappell (born 26 September 1943) is a former cricketer who played for South Australia and Australia. Known as "Chappelli", he is considered as one of the greatest captains the game has seen.[1][2][3][4] He captained Australia between 1971 and 1975 before taking a central role in the breakaway World Series Cricket organisation. Born into a cricketing family—his grandfather and brother also captained Australia—Chappell made a hesitant start to international cricket playing as a right-hand middle-order batsman and spin bowler. He found his niche when promoted to bat at number three. Chappell's blunt verbal manner led to a series of confrontations with opposition players and cricket administrators; the issue of sledging first arose during his tenure as captain, and he was a driving force behind the professionalisation of Australian cricket in the 1970s.[5] He was the captain of the Australian squad which finished as runners-up at the 1975 Cricket World Cup.
John Arlott called him "a cricketer of effect rather than the graces".[6] An animated presence at the batting crease, he constantly adjusted his equipment and clothing, and restlessly tapped his bat on the ground as the bowler ran in. Basing his game on a sound defence learned during many hours of childhood lessons, Chappell employed the drive and square cut to full effect.[5] He had an idiosyncratic method of playing back and across to a ball of full length and driving wide of mid-on,[7] but his trademark shot was the hook, saying "three bouncers an over should be worth 12 runs to me".[8] A specialist slip fielder, he was the fourth player to take one hundred Test catches.
Since his retirement in 1980, he has pursued a high-profile career as a sports journalist and cricket commentator, predominantly with Channel Nine.[4] He remains a key figure in Australian cricket: in 2006, Shane Warne called Chappell the biggest influence on his career.[9] Chappell was inducted into the Sport Australia Hall of Fame in 1986,[4] the FICA Cricket Hall of Fame in 2000 and the Australian Cricket Hall of Fame in 2003.[10] On 9 July 2009, Ian Chappell was inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame.[11]
- ^ MCG biography: Ian Chappell. Retrieved 20 August 2007. Archived 4 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ An Aussie to the core. Archived 8 July 2012 at archive.today Cricinfo. Retrieved 30 September 2007.
- ^ ESPN-STAR sports sign Ian Chappell. The Hindu. Retrieved 2 October 2007.
- ^ a b c Sport Australia Hall of Fame: Ian Chappell. Archived 11 July 2024 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 27 September 2020.
- ^ a b Cashman et al. (1996), p 103.
- ^ Ian Chappell player profile. Archived 18 October 2007 at the Wayback Machine Cricinfo. Retrieved 17 August 2007.
- ^ Simpson (1996), p 54.
- ^ p37, David Gower, Heroes and Contemporaries, Granada Publishing Ltd, 1985
- ^ In Warne's Words. Archived 13 October 2008 at the Wayback Machine The Age. Retrieved 8 October 2007.
- ^ Cricket's Hall of Fame welcomes five new members. Archived 19 January 2013 at archive.today Cricinfo. Retrieved 19 August 2007.
- ^ Arjun Wadhwa (9 July 2009). "Chappell, May, Graveney inducted into Hall of Fame". TheSportsCampus. Archived from the original on 12 November 2018. Retrieved 6 April 2017.