Aashish Kapoor
Aashish Rakesh Kapoor (ⓘ; born 25 March 1971) is a former Indian cricketer who played in four Test matches and 17 One Day Internationals from 1994 to 2000. A right-arm off spinner and right-handed lower-order batsman, he was a member of the 1996 Cricket World Cup squad.[1][2]
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| Full name | Aashish Rakesh Kapoor | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 25 March 1971 Madras, Tamil Nadu, India | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Right-arm off-break | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Test debut (cap 201) | 10 December 1994 v West Indies | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last Test | 8 December 1996 v South Africa | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ODI debut (cap 92) | 22 February 1995 v Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last ODI | 14 December 2000 v Zimbabwe | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Kapoor began his playing career at the St Mary's School and Santhome HSS in Chennai. In the TNCA schools tournament in 1987–88, he scored four hundreds in a row, including a 116 before lunch against Padma Seshadri. This won him the Best Schoolboy Cricketer award from TNCA and later the JC Mukherjee award for the best U-17 cricketer. For South Zone in the Vijay Hazare Trophy, Kapoor scored 103 & 58* against Central Zone and 130 against the North. He then started playing for SPIC in the senior league.[3]
In December 1988 in the Under-19 Ghulam Ahmed trophy (South Zone of the Cooch Behar Trophy), Kapoor scored 304 (420 minutes, 354 balls, 24 fours and a six) against Goa. He added 408 for the first wicket with J. Ramdas. He also coached for Baharain cricket team.[4] In 2022, he was named assistant coach of Gujarat Titans in the Indian Premier League.
References
- "Aashish Kapoor Replaces Venkatesh Prasad in All-India Junior Selection Committee". NDTVSports.com. Retrieved 3 April 2020.
- "U-19 selection panel: Aashish Kapoor likely to replace Venkatesh Prasad - Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 3 April 2020.
- Indian Express, 17 December 1988
- Sipra, Adnan. "Other Sports: Cricket team face Malaysia". www.gdnonline.com.
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