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{{short description|English cricketer}}
{{Use British English|date=August 2013}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2024}}
{{Infobox cricketer
| name = Graham Napier
| image = Graham Napier Profile Photo.jpg
| country = England
| full_name = Graham Richard Napier
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1980|1|6|df=yes}}
| birth_place = [[Colchester]], [[Essex]], England
| nickname = Napes, George
| heightft = 5
| heightinch = 10
| batting = Right-handed
| bowling = Right-arm [[Fast bowling|medium]]
| role = [[All-rounder]]
| club1 = [[Essex County Cricket Club|Essex]]
| year1 = {{nowrap|1997–2016}}
| clubnumber1 = 17
| club2 = [[Essex Cricket Board]]
| year2 = 1999–2002
| club3 = [[Wellington cricket team|Wellington]]
| year3 = {{nowrap|2007/08–2008/09}}
| club4 = [[Mumbai Indians]]
| year4 = 2009
| club5 = [[Central Districts cricket team|Central Districts]]
| year5 = 2009/10–2011/12
| club6 = Wellington
| year6 = 2013/14
| type1 = [[First-class cricket|FC]]
| debutdate1 = 7 May
| debutyear1 = 1997
| debutfor1 = Essex
| debutagainst1 = [[Cambridge University Cricket Club|Cambridge University]]
| lastdate1 = 12 September
| lastyear1 = 2016
| lastfor1 = Essex
| lastagainst1 = [[Glamorgan County Cricket Club|Glamorgan]]
| type2 = [[List A cricket|LA]]
| debutdate2 = 10 August
| debutyear2 = 1997
| debutfor2 = Essex
| debutagainst2 = [[Kent County Cricket Club|Kent]]
| lastdate2 = 17 August
| lastyear2 = 2016
| lastfor2 = Essex
| lastagainst2 = [[Warwickshire County Cricket Club|Warwickshire]]
| columns = 3
| column1 = [[First-class cricket|FC]]
| matches1 = 179
| runs1 = 5,739
| bat avg1 = 29.28
| 100s/50s1 = 7/31
| top score1 = 196
| deliveries1 = 25,213
| wickets1 = 490
| bowl avg1 = 30.12
| fivefor1 = 17
| tenfor1 = 0
| best bowling1 = 7/21
| catches/stumpings1 = 63/–
| column2 = [[List A cricket|LA]]
| matches2 = 246
| runs2 = 2,971
| bat avg2 = 18.33
| 100s/50s2 = 0/14
| top score2 = 79
| deliveries2 = 8,762
| wickets2 = 299
| bowl avg2 = 25.93
| fivefor2 = 4
| tenfor2 = 0
| best bowling2 = 7/32
| catches/stumpings2 = 58/–
| column3 = [[Twenty20|T20]]
| matches3 = 137
| runs3 = 1,206
| bat avg3 = 15.66
| 100s/50s3 = 1/0
| top score3 = 152[[Not out|*]]
| deliveries3 = 2,905
| wickets3 = 164
| bowl avg3 = 23.35
| fivefor3 = 0
| tenfor3 = 0
| best bowling3 = 4/10
| catches/stumpings3 = 43/–
| date = 15 September
| year = 2016
| source = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/7/7201/7201.html CricketArchive
}}
'''Graham Richard Napier''' (born 6 January 1980) is an English former [[cricket]]er. He was a right-handed batsman and a right-arm [[fast bowling|medium]] pace bowler.<ref>[http://www.essexcricket.org.uk/profiles-napier.html Essex County Cricket Club player profile] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090202194830/http://essexcricket.org.uk/profiles-napier.html |date=2 February 2009 }}.</ref>
Napier played first-class cricket for his home county of [[Essex County Cricket Club|Essex]] since the outset of his senior career in 1997. Between 1997 and 1999 Napier played in four Youth Test matches in England against [[Zimbabwean U-19 cricket team|Zimbabwe]], [[South African U-19 cricket team|South Africa]] (twice) and [[Australian U-19 cricket team|Australia]]'s respective under-19 teams. He was also a member of the [[1998 Under-19 Cricket World Cup]] winning squad. Napier was on the books of [[Ipswich Town F.C.|Ipswich Town]] as a goalkeeper and played for a season on loan at Felixstowe Town. He retired at the end of the 2016 season.

==Playing style==
Born in [[Colchester]], [[Essex]], Napier was a medium pace bowler, who was capable of reaching speeds between 85 mph-90 mph.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Berry |first1=Scyld |title=2008 Friends Provident Trophy: Bowlers' final swings Essex's way |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/cricket/2571486/2008-Friends-Provident-Trophy-final-Essex-prove-too-strong-for-Kent-Cricket.html |access-date=29 August 2024 |work=Daily Telegraph |date=16 August 2008}}</ref> Napier has displayed a slower ball in Twenty20 games which proved hard to spot. As a batsman, Napier twice hit 16 sixes in an innings, once in a Twenty20 match, and once in a County Championship match.

==Twenty20 and 40 over==

In a [[Twenty20]] cup match against [[Sussex County Cricket Club|Sussex]] on 24 June 2008, Napier scored 152 not out from 58 balls. The innings set a number of records, notably the highest individual score in a T20 innings in England, and in the domestic Twenty20 competition; the highest number of sixes in an individual Twenty20 innings (16); the most runs scored in boundaries in an individual Twenty20 innings (136 runs, scored as 10 fours, and 16 sixes).<ref>{{cite news
| title = BBC Sport: Awesome Napier shatters records
| url = https://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/counties/7471312.stm
| access-date = 24 June 2008 | date=24 June 2008
| publisher=BBC News}}
</ref> It also broke the record for most sixes in a domestic one-day innings, and tied the record for most sixes in any domestic innings, tying the record set by [[Andrew Symonds]], during a [[County Championship]] game in 1995.

Graham Napier has the record for the highest ever T20 score when batting at number 3 position.(152*).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Records/Twenty20/Overall/Batting/Highest_Score_by_Batting_position.html|title=Match scorecard|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=2017-02-22}}</ref> Also he's in second in the list for scoring the most number of boundaries in a T20 innings.(26 boundaries-10 fours and 16 sixes) and also second in the list for hitting the most number of sixes in a T20 innings.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Records/Twenty20/Overall/Batting/Most_Innings_Boundaries.html|title=Match scorecard|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=2017-02-22}}</ref>

He was signed by the Mumbai Indians for the 2009 IPL Season for an undisclosed amount.

In March 2009, Napier was called up to the [[England Lions cricket team|England Lions]] squad for the first time since 2004. [[Geoff Miller]], one of the selectors, said "the selectors felt this was a good opportunity for us to have a closer look at him within the England set-up".<ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/cricket/counties/essex/7925569.stm |title=Napier drafted into Lions squad |publisher=BBC |date=5 March 2009 |access-date=6 March 2009 }}</ref>
On 1 May 2009, Napier was confirmed as a member of the 15-man England squad for the 2009 Twenty20 World Cup on the same day as he made his first appearance for the [[Mumbai Indians]].

On 3 June 2013, Napier finished a [[ECB 40|YB40]] match with figures of 7 wickets for 32 runs, including 3 maidens, taking 4 wickets in 4 balls as Essex beat Surrey by 178 runs.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/22761877 |title=Graham Napier takes four in four for Essex against Surrey |publisher=BBC Sport|date=3 June 2013 |access-date=3 June 2013}}</ref>

==First-class==
On 19 May 2011, Napier equalled the record for most sixes scored in a first-class innings.<ref>{{cite news | title = BBC Sport: Sixes record matched by Essex all-rounder Graham Napier | url = https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/13455377 | access-date = 19 May 2011 | date=19 May 2011 | publisher=BBC News}}</ref> He hit 16 sixes as part of a 130-ball 196 for Essex. It was his first first-class innings for 11 months, after being sidelined with a back injury. He hit 103 runs from the last 29 balls of his innings. After his innings, Napier told BBC Essex that he considers himself as mainly a bowler. On 22 June 2013, Napier took career best bowling figures of 7 wickets for 90 runs against Leicestershire.

==References==
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==External links==
*{{cricinfo|id=17991}}

{{England Squad 2009 World Twenty20}}

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